Clinical Laboratory Testing in PALTC: More Than A Black Box (Archive 6/16/2021)

1.0 CME / 1.0 CMD Management / 1.0 MOC

Join COLA Inc. and AMDA – the Society for Post-Acute Long-Term Care Medicine as we address pitfalls in laboratory testing and promote practical solutions for process improvement in your long-term care (LTC) facility. This panel discussion will review challenges in laboratory testing, examine common point of care testing and sources of errors, discuss education resources available to LTC facilities, and describe the medical director’s role in laboratory quality in LTC facilities.

Target Audience:

Medical directors, attending physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, practice managers, administrators, consultant pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals working in the long-term care setting. 

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the options, benefits, and pitfalls of laboratory testing in skilled nursing facilities.
• Identify the most common point of care testing (POCT) and potential sources of errors in all phases of testing.
• Discuss laboratory education resources available to LTC facilities.
• Describe the necessary involvement of the medical director in laboratory quality in LTC facilities.

Speaker Information: 

Sabine von Preyss-Friedman, MD, CMD, FACP, is an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Washington and Chief Medical Officer of Avalon Healthcare. She first became a certified Medical Director in 1992 and has since been enthusiastically engaged in the practice of post-acute and long-term care. She is currently a member of AMDA’s Board of Directors and serves as President of the Washington State Chapter of AMDA.

Keith Davis, MD, FAAFP, is a rural/frontier family physician in southern Idaho who owns an Independent RHC. He is Laboratory Director of the clinic POL. Dr. Davis received a BA Biology and BS Chemistry from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA, in 1977 and received his MD from George Washington University in Washington, DC, in 1982. Dr. Davis has a solo private practice in Shoshone, Idaho, since 1985. He has served as hospital chief of staff, county coroner, state medical association president, and was the 2014 American Academy of Family Physicians Family Physician of the Year. He currently serves as Chair of Finance of COLA.

Verlin Janzen, MD, FAAFP, is a Medical Technologist and Family Physician who is in private practice at the Hutchinson Clinic, Hutchinson, KS.  He has served as Medical Director of a number of nursing homes over the past 25 years.  In addition to his patient practice, he serves as Medical Director of the Laboratory and as Medical Director of Population Health and Medical Informatics at the Hutchinson Clinic. He is also a member of the Volunteer Faculty at the University of Kansas Medical Center – Wichita.

Credit Information:

Activity Created 6/2021

Credits Available Until 6/2024

Credit Statements: 

CME: AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

CMD: This enduring activity has been pre-approved by the American Board of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (ABPLM) for a total of 1.0 management hours toward certification or recertification as a Certified Medical Director (CMD) in post-acute and long-term care medicine. The CMD program is administered by the ABPLM. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit actually spent on the activity. 

Maintenance of Certification (MOC): Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.0 Medical Knowledge MOC points and patient safety credit in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. 

Disclosure Information: 

The Society requires all speakers verbally disclosure all relevant financial relationships; presence of off-label use of a device or medication; and discussion of any experimental, new or evolving topic prior to each accredited education activity.

If the learner perceives any bias toward a commercial product or service, advocation of unscientific approaches to diagnosis or therapy, or recommendation, treatment, or manners of practicing healthcare that are determined to have risks or dangers that outweigh the benefits or are known to be ineffective in the treatment of patients please report this to the Society’s staff.

All relevant relationships have been identified, mitigated, and resolved.  

• The speakers have no financial relationships to disclose.
• The following AMDA Education Committee members have financial relationships: Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD-UHG/United HealthCare: Employee; all others have no relationships with ineligible companies. 
• AMDA staff have no relationships with ineligible companies.