The following clinical practice guidelines are intended to support our health care team and serve as resources to ensure our providers have the most up to date, evidence-based information recommended by nationally recognized organizations.

American Medical Directors Association – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine

– the standard care process in the post-acute and long-term care (PA/LTC) setting.

COPD:

• Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management and Prevention of COPD

Diabetes:

• Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes – 2024

Heart Failure:

• American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA) and (HFSA) Heart Failure Society of America 2017 Focused Update of the 2013 ACCFAHA Guidelines for the Management of Heart Failure
• 2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure

Hypertension:

• ACC and American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines for the detection, prevention, management and treatment of high blood pressure

Dementia:

• Alzheimer’s Association Dementia Care Practice Recommendations
• American Psychiatric Association – Practice Guidelines on the use of Antipsychotics to Treat Agitation or Psychosis in Patients with Dementia

Osteoporosis:

• 2020 Clinical Practice Guidelines for Postmenopausal Osteoporosis

Depression:

• American Psychiatric Association(APA)(2019). APA Guideline For the Treatment of Depression. Clinical Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Depression Across Three Age Cohorts

Prevention:

• World Health Organization, Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
• World Health Organization, Preventing and managing COVID-19 across long-term care services:
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prevention and Control of Seasonal Influenza with Vaccines
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Recommends Updated 2024-2025 COVID-19 and Flu Vaccines for Fall/Winter Virus Season
• U.S. Preventive Service Task Force Recommendations

Guidelines are provided for informational purposes only and are not meant to direct individual treatment decisions. All patient care and related decisions are the sole responsibility of providers. These guidelines do not dictate or control a provider’s clinical judgement regarding the appropriate treatment of a patient in any given case.