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Community LTC

Bill Kubat, MS, LNHA, works with guest authors to explore issues of home-based and community services. He is the director of mission integration for the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society. He directs a staff whose activities encompass education, survey support and management, new-service development, quality assurance, and consulting services in a variety of areas. He has been active nationally in quality improvement and long-term care culture change.

 

Daniel Osterweil, MD, FACP, CMD is medical director of S+AGE at Sherman Oaks Hospital near Los Angeles. He also serves as clinical professor in the division of geriatrics at the University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine. He is the former editor in chief of JAMDA, the official journal of AMDA-Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine.
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Dear Dr. Jeff

Jeffrey Nichols, M.D., is vice president for medical services of the Cabrini Eldercare Consortium in New York City, which includes two skilled nursing facilities, three home care agencies, two adult day care programs, and a senior housing complex.
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IDT Rounds

Bonnie Wirfs, M.D., CMD, is a certified medical director, past president of the Wisconsin Association of Medical Directors, faculty member of the AMDA Core Curriculum, and member of the AMDA Online Education Committee. She has practiced long-term medicine for more than 20 years.
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Legal Issues

Janet K. Feldkamp, JD, RN, LNHA, practices in various aspects of health care, including long-term care survey and certification, certificate of need, health care acquisitions, physician and nurse practice, managed care and nursing related issues, and fraud and abuse. She is affiliated with Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP of Columbus, Ohio. The information she provides for Legal Issues is not to be substituted for legal advice.
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LTC Pharmacy

Frederick L. Wendt, RPh, is vice president of pharmacy services and clinical operations for Fundamental Clinical Consulting, LLC, which is the parent company of more than 100 skilled nursing facilities in 10 states. As such, he oversees pharmacy services for hospice and home care divisions as well as skilled nursing facilities and long-term, acute-care hospitals.
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Medical Ethics

Jonathan Evans, MD, MPH, CMD, is a full-time long-term care physician in Charlottesville, Va., and medical director of two skilled nursing facilities. He serves on AMDA’s board of directors and the Caring for the Ages editorial advisory board.
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Meditations on Geriatric Medicine

Jerald Winakur, M.D., CMD, FACP, has practiced internal and geriatric medicine for 35 years and is an associate faculty member at the Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, where he is clinical professor of medicine. His book “Memory Lessons: A Doctor’s Story” (New York: Hyperion, 2008) is about his life in medicine and the trials and joys of caring for his father with Alzheimer’s disease.
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Public Policy

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