PALTtalk

Title: “The The Story Behind AB749” 

Our Guest Michael R. Wasserman, MD, CMD is a geriatrician who has devoted his career to serving the needs of older adults. He has been a tireless advocate for vulnerable older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, with multiple peer-reviewed publications and television appearances. He served as a member of the National Academy of Science’s “A Framework for Equitable Allocation of Vaccine for the Novel Coronavirus” Committee and was a member of California’s Community Vaccine Advisory Committee. He is Editor-in-Chief of Springer’s upcoming textbook, Geriatric Medicine: A Person-Centered Evidence-Based Approach.

Recording Date: July 5, 2022

Host: Carl J. “Christian” Bergman, MD, CMD

Available Credit: The American Board of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (ABPLM) issues CMD credits for AMDA On-The-Go and affiliate podcast episodes as follows:

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We review and discuss all things new around COVID vaccinations and boosters, while addressing the questions that are often asked by PALTC clinicians and staff. In addition we tackle the ongoing challenge of vaccine & booster hesitancy and apathy.

Featuring: With Swati Gaur, MD, and Leslie Eber, MD. Hosted by Diane Sanders-Cepeda

Recording Date: 7/1/22

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This conversation raises the challenging issue of bias in clinical decision-making and provides strategies to overcome this in our day-to-day practice.

Featuring: Travis Neill & Hosted by Diane Sanders-Cepeda

Recording Date: 6/27/22

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Daniel Haimowitz, MD, FACP, CMD, is a board-certified internist and geriatrician and has been in private practice in Levittown, PA, since 1986. Dr. Haimowitz is the medical director of several area nursing homes and assisted-living communities. He founded the Bucks County Long-Term Care Consortium and serves on the Bucks County Senior Task Force. He is also the medical adviser for the Bucks County Area Agency on Aging. A nationally recognized expert in long-term care and devoted advocate for older adults, he has participated in past White House Conferences on Aging, most recently in 2015. Dr. Haimowitz received the American Geriatrics Society Physician of the Year Award in 2001 and the William Dodd Founder’s Award for Distinguished Service from the American Medical Directors Association in 2009. He has served AMDA in many key roles over the years including as a member of the Board and on the public policy committee. He continuously assists AMDA in key initiatives and is very active in advocacy and public policy at the state and national levels.

Recording Date: June 23

This podcast will spotlight articles from the June 2022 issue of JAMDA. JAMDA is the official journal of AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.

Host:  Karl Steinberg MD, HMDC, CMD

Guests: Philip Sloane MD, MPH; Mallory Brown, MD 

Special Guest: Josh Niznik, PharmD

References:

• Sloane, P., MD, MPH, et. al., “The Ambiguous Reality of Prescribing in Geriatric Practice”, JAMDA, June/2022.

Recorded: May 25, 2022

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Join our host, Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD, as she welcomed special guests, Lynn D’Avico, PharmD, CPh, and Amina Dubuisson, DNP, MSN, RN, PCNS-BC, to this episode of FMDA’s Journal Club, Achieving Quality Now.

 Our learning objectives for this session were:

1. Analyze the evolving healthcare landscape and the impact on our PALTC facilities.

Special Guests: Lynn D’Avico, PharmD, CPh; and Amina Dubuisson, DNP, MBA/HCM, RN, LNHA, CDP

Hosted by: Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD

Recorded: June 22, 2022

June-July 2022 - The PALTC22 Conference Issue

In this episode Karl Steinberg and Elizabeth Galik reflect on the PALTC22 conference, including how to support nurses to ease the workforce crisis and formulating and communicating prognoses. We also discuss the power of social relationships in long-term care and a legal issues column on medication errors and homicide. Articles include:

• Joanne Kaldy, “Supporting Nurses to Ease the Workforce Crisis” (https://www.caringfortheages.com/article/S1526-4114(22)00192-5/fulltext)

Host: Karl Steinberg, MD, HMDC, CMD

Guest(s): Elizabeth Galik, Ph.D., CRNP

Resources: Caring for the Ages

Recorded: June 9, 2022

Available Credit: 0.25 CMD-Clinical

Long COVID – Clinical Deep Dive

Presenter: Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD

Recorded: May 11, 2022

Let’s go down the rabbit hole and explore clinical cases, literature, and guidance while continuing the dialogue on the impact of Long COVID, aka. Post-Acute Sequala of COVID (PASC), across the PALTC continuum.

Our learning objectives for this session were:

1. Review current insight into the pathophysiology of Post-Acute Sequala of COVID and the duration of this condition.

Special Guests: Kenneth Scheppke, MD, FAEMS, and Kimberly R. Smoak, MSH, QIDP

Presenter: Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD

Recorded: March 30, 2022

Join special guests, Kenneth Scheppke, MD, FAEMS, and Kimberly R. Smoak, MSH, QIDP, and our host Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD, for this episode of FMDA's Journal Club, Meeting the Current Clinical Challenges in PALTC.

This session focused on the following Learning Objectives:

1. Review President Biden’s nursing home policy, as laid out in the State of the Union, and varied responses from AMDA and other national organizations.

Special Guests: Bernardo J. Reyes, MD, CMD, AGSF, and Shannu Satyavolu, MD

Hosted by: Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD

Recorded: February 23, 2022

Join special guests, Bernardo J. Reyes, MD, CMD, AGSF; Shannu Satyavolu, MD; and our host, Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD, for the next episode of FMDA's Journal Club, Cardiology Updates.

Our learning objectives for this session were:

1. Discuss the latest hot topics and clinical trends impacting the PALTC community.