Long-Term Care Physicians

Insights into these doctors’ contributions and constraints are highlighted in interviews with medical directors and attending physicians.

It’s time for Congress and CMS to take action and raise the profile and competencies of industry clinicians — especially medical directors, according to long-term care physician advocate AMDA.

It’s time for clinicians to get up-to-date on respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and help address the threat it poses to older adults, according to a new report and call to action from the National Foundation...

Long-term care clinicians are embracing the FDA’s first full approval of a COVID-19 vaccine, saying the decision will support their efforts to increase vaccination coverage and reduce infections and...

NIC webinar on role of physicians in senior living runs today … Israel offers third shot of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine … 90-year-old infected by two COVID-19 variants of concern … Post-surgical pacemaker...

The results highlight the “unique and specific nature of medical care provided by attending physicians across a range of PALTC settings,” concluded a task force of industry experts.

Doctors practicing in long-term care settings should hone certain skills identified by leading stakeholders in order to produce higher quality outcomes, according to a prominent physician association....