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Full Schedule

Full Schedule

  • Wednesday, March 25, 2026
  • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM PT
    EXTRA FEE - Open the Door to LTC Research Workshop
  • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM PT
    EXTRA FEE - Wound Care in PALTC: Practical Skills for Clinicians
  • 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM PT
    Registration Open
  • Thursday, March 26, 2026
  • 6:30 AM - 6:00 AM PT
    Registration Open
  • 7:30 AM - 5:00 PM PT
    Futures Program
  • 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM PT
    General Session I: Opening Keynote
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM PT
    Break
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PT
    Clinician’s Guide to Audits: Know the Triggers, Manage the Risks, Stay Ahead
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PT
    Improving Person-Centered Care Through Assessment, Quality Improvement and Education
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PT
    Infection Control and Antibiotic Stewardship: What to Measure and How
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PT
    Understanding Immediate Jeopardy, Receiverships and Facility Termination: The Medical Director's Role
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM PT
    Break (Lunch on Own)
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PT
    Are You Prepared to Address Ethical Dilemmas? Introducing the PALTmed Ethics Toolkit
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PT
    Clinical Hits for 2026: COPD, Sleep, and CHF
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PT
    Implementing Meaningful Activity Approaches for Residents with Dementia in Assisted Living
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PT
    Prevention Across the Continuum: Health Maintenance in Post-Acute and Long-Term Settings
  • 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM PT
    Train the Trainer: Bring Age-Friendly Substance Use Disorder Education to Your SNF
  • 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM PT
    Break
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PT
    Artificial Intelligence Showcase
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PT
    Connected Transitions: Aligning Teams, Tools, and Tech for Seamless Care
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PT
    From Policy to Practice: Operationalizing an Effective Antimicrobial Stewardship Program in PALTC
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PT
    Narrative as Medicine: Reconstructing our Humanity through Storytelling in PALTC
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PT
    Prescribing Memory Loss? From Harm to Healing: Implementing Solutions to Anticholinergic Overuse
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM PT
    Beyond the Bedside: Powering Physician-Led Outcomes and Enrollment Growth in Post-Acute
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM PT
    Clinical Hits for 2026: Psychiatry, Electrolyte Disorders & BMP
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM PT
    Creative Strategies using Humanism to Inspire and Support the Geriatrics Workforce Pipeline
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM PT
    Meeting the Needs of People with HIV in Long-term Care
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM PT
    Strategies to Enhance Value-Based Outcomes Through Live Analytics
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM PT
    Substance Use Disorder: Resident rights, resident safety- Where is the line?
  • 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM PT
    First Time Attendee and New Member Meetup
  • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PT
    Welcome Reception in Exhibit Hall
  • Friday, March 27, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 5:30 PM PT
    Registration Open
  • 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM PT
    General Session II: Steve Levenson Lecture & Anne-Marie Filkin Lecture
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM PT
    Break in the Exhibit Hall
  • 10:00 AM - 3:30 PM PT
    Exhibit Hall Open
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PT
    Advancing Rehabilitation Paradigms for Older Adults in Skilled Nursing Facilities
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PT
    Beyond the Arteries: Practical PAD Management in PALTC
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PT
    Can AI Really Improve Quality Measures? Separating Wins from Wishful Thinking
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PT
    Leverage Live Data to Maintain a Culture of Care, Communication, and Compliance
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PT
    Long-Term Care Nurse Residency Program: Improving Nurse Retention
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PT
    When Can Policy Harm: Navigating CMS Regulations in Long-Term Care Psychiatry
  • 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM PT
    Lunch in Exhibit Hall
  • 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM PT
    In the Trenches Lunch Table Talks
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM PT
    Balancing Boundaries and Compassion: Managing Borderline Personality Disorder in Long-Term Care Settings
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM PT
    Beyond the Blow Up: Educating PALTC Teams to De-escalate with Empathy
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM PT
    Directing Value: The Future of SNF Leadership
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM PT
    This Year in Review in Long Term Care
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM PT
    Women in PALTC- Sandwich Generation Caring for Parents, Children, Patients & Self
  • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM PT
    Spirituality in Medical Education and Practice: Spiritual Care Assessment Workshop
  • 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM PT
    Break in Exhibit Hall
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM PT
    Breaking Science: Presentations from Leading Researchers in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM PT
    E & M Billing and Coding for Nursing Homes and Assisted Living.
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM PT
    From Regulation To Results: National Trends and Management Opportunities
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM PT
    Gabapentinoid Deprescribing: Implementation of Education, Strategies and Data Review Across 136 NH
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM PT
    Post-Pandemic Private Practice: Is It Love in the Time of Cholera
  • 4:00 PM - 4:15 PM PT
    Break
  • 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM PT
    Advancing Geriatrics Education: Scenario-Based and Interprofessional Teaching in Skilled Nursing Facilities
  • 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM PT
    Beyond Do Not Resuscitate: Tracheostomies, Feeding Tubes, and Ambulances, Oh My!
  • 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM PT
    Beyond E & M Billing and Coding for Long Term Care.
  • 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM PT
    Building a Better Pathway: Interdisciplinary Team Approaches to Palliative Care Integration
  • 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM PT
    The Art and Science of Leading in PALTC: Inspiring Teams, Driving Excellence
  • 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM PT
    Wound Molecular Testing: Understanding the Latest Evidence and Navigating Pitfalls
  • 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM PT
    Chapter Meetings & Receptions (Various Locations)
  • 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM PT
    EXTRA FEE - PALTC26 Mixer @ Anaheim House of Blues
  • Saturday, March 28, 2026
  • 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM PT
    Registration Open
  • 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM PT
    General Session III: Health Policy Update
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PT
    Break in the Exhibit Hall
  • 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM PT
    Exhibit Hall Open
  • 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM PT
    House of Delegates Meeting
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PT
    Clinical Hits for 2026: Diabetes and CKD
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PT
    Redefining Post-Acute Care: Improving Outcomes Through a Dedicated Cardiorenal Specialist Model
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PT
    Tough Talk: The Art of Having the Difficult Conversation
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PT
    Transforming Palliative Care Delivery: Mitigating Risks Associated with Preventable Hospital Readmissions
  • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM PT
    Lunch in Exhibit Hall
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PT
    Hydration: How to Quantify and Manage It
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PT
    One Practice's Approach to Graduate Medical Education in Post-Acute Long-Term Care
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PT
    Reframing the Narrative: Improving Diagnostic Precision in Terminal Ulcer Identification
  • 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM PT
    From Leadership to Followership! Developing Skills to Efficient Teamwork and Therapeutic Alliance.
  • 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM PT
    Break
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PT
    From Guidelines to Groundwork: Building Sustainable Fall Prevention Programs
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PT
    Microtransitions: Best Practice Recommendations for Recreational Outings, Outpatient Appointments and Room Changes
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PT
    Reassessing AChEIs: Are We Undervaluing a Foundational Alzheimer’s Therapy?
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PT
    Think Before You Order: Application of Bayesian Statistics at the Bedside