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06/16/2022
AMDA - The Society for PALTC Medicine | June 15
COMMERCIAL: COVID-19 Update
Headlines:
New/Updated Guidance
- AAPMR: Multi-Disciplinary Collaborative Consensus Guidance Statement on the Assessment and Treatment of Cardiovascular Complications in Patients with Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV2 Infection
- FDA: PAXLOVID Patient Eligibility Screening Checklist Tool for Prescribers
Journal Articles/Preprints
- JAMDA: Walking Is Associated With Physical Capacity and Fatigue but Not Cognition in Long-Term Care Residents
- Dementia and COVID-19 Infection Control in Assisted Living in Seven States
- Association of Reduced Hospitalizations and Mortality Among COVID-19 Vaccinated Patients with Heart Failure
- Cardiometabolic multimorbidity, genetic risk, and dementia: a prospective cohort study
Research Reports/White Papers
- Evusheld significantly prevented COVID-19 disease progression or death in TACKLE Phase III treatment trial
- ADA: Diabetes may quadruple risk for long COVID
Podcasts/Webinars
- More of a Good Thing: Strategies for Integrating Career Mobility through Shared Governance in PALTC Settings, June 23, 2022, 4:00 PM ET
- CDC COCA: What Clinicians Need to Know About Available Therapeutic Options for COVID-19. Thursday, June 16, 2022, 2:00–3:00 PM ET
News/News Analysis
- AMA gets behind push for public list of nursing home medical directors
- AHRQ is seeking nursing homes to participate in a pilot study of the Workplace Safety Supplemental Item Set.
- Nursing Home Closures Hit Smaller Markets as Financial, Staffing Crisis Deepens Across Industry
- 48 percent of assisted living providers may close due to workforce issues: survey
- Devastating and Crippling: CMS Receives Thousands of Comments, Nursing Home Operators Push Back on Medicare Cut
- FL: CMS withholds another $1-plus million over vaccine mandate non-compliance
- Vaccine to protect seniors from RSV ready for FDA review, drugmaker says
- Older adults more likely to have multiple ailments compared with prior generations
- Covid is making flu and other common viruses act in unfamiliar ways