It's Time for a Teaching Assisted Living Facility
1.00 CME / 1.00 CMD Management / 1.00 MOC
A teaching assisted living facility can provide benefits to the trainees, the residents and the facility itself. A program of this type has been functioning at one facility over the course of 20 years and can, and should, be instituted more widely throughout the assisted living field.
Presenters
Alec Pruchnicki, MD, is an acting medical director at the Vista on 5th Assisted Living Facility (previously known as the Robert Lott ALF), a non-profit, community run, Medicaid supported facility in New York City. Besides providing primary care to the residents at the facility, he has taught numerous medical and nursing students and professionals at this location over the 18 years he has worked there.
Learning Objectives
- Establish an educational program in an assisted living facility.
- Use this training to improve care of the residents at such facilities.
- Monitor efficacy of the program by feedback from residents, trainees, and instructors.
- Enable the program to be self-sustaining.
Credit Information
Activity Created 3/2022
Credits Available Until 3/2025
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(s)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 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 self-study 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.
ABIM 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.
Visit the Continuing Education page for information on if and how you can claim credit/hours for AMDA’s education.
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All relevant financial relationships have been identified, mitigated, and resolved.
- The following AMDA Education Committee members have financial relationships to report: Diane Sanders-Cepeda, DO, CMD — UHC E&I Retiree Solutions: Full-Time Employee; all others have no relationships with ineligible companies.
- The speaker(s) have no relevant financial relationships.
- AMDA staff have no relationships with ineligible companies.