• Support Network: Membership in PMDA provides you with the opportunity to expand your professional contacts by attending the Association’s Annual Symposium and periodic regioal meetings. PMDA is the source for dialogue with your colleagues regarding the role and practice of long-term care professionals including medical directors, physicians, and other health care team members.
  
• Continuing Education: PMDA offers opportunities to advance your medical knowledge and skill through our newsletter and annual continuing medical education symposium.
  
• Public Advocacy: Membership in PMDA provides the opportunity to strengthen your voice in Harrisburg on matters pertinent to the field of long-term care. PMDA is taking the initiative to represent, educate, and advocate on behalf of physicians who practice in long-term care. PMDA also works collaboratively with AMDA on issues of national importance to long-term care.
  
• Organizational Vision: PMDA will be a leader in enhancing the health care and quality of life for Pennsylvanians across the continuum of long-term care, through assisting medical directors, physicians, and other health care team members.

OBJECTIVES:

• To promote excellence in medical care for residents of all ages in nursing homes and other long-term care settings.
  
• To promote peer education among medical directors, attending, referring, and consulting physicians on nursing home staffs and in long-term settings.
  
• To assist non-medical providers, consultants, nursing home staff and regulatory agencies in maintaining high standards of resident care.
  
• To assist family and others in the understanding, acceptance, and assistance for residents in long-term care.
  
• To establish and promote educational programs for maintaining a high standard of professional care in long-term institutions.
  
• To act as liaison with other professional organizations and individuals to promote quality resident care.
  
• To promote the enactment of laws, regulations, and payment systems to accomplish these objectives.
  

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

• Represent over 200 members throughout the state, and are the largest chapter of the American Medical Directors Association.
  
• Routinely attract over 100 long term care professionals to the PMDA Annual Educational Symposium.
  
• Maintain a cooperative relationship with the Department of Health.
  
• Published regular issues of PMDA News...thirty issues of PMDA News since inaugural issue in Summer 1993.
  
• Maintain alliances with other key organizations in long-term care.
  
• Offer an informative PMDA official website, www.pamda.org.
  
• Maintain fax and email capabilities to communicate with members in a timely manner.

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