Age-Friendly Health Systems
The AHA, together with behavioral health and language experts from member hospitals and partner organizations, will release a series of downloadable posters to help your employees adopt patient-centered, respectful language.
Six years after Banner Health created its Healthy Together Care Partnership, the HTCP team joined the 黑料正能量 Association鈥檚 Age-Friendly Health Systems Action Community and began its journey to embed age-friendly care into practice. As a result, patient and provider satisfaction scores鈥
The Population health Management page contains current initiatives and resources related to improving care coordination and patient engagement supported by appropriate financial and care models.
In this Members in Action podcast, we will focus on Cedars-Sinai Medical Center鈥檚 age-friendly efforts.
Marie Cleary-Fishman, Vice President of Clinical Quality speaks with Amy Berman, Senior Program Officer at The John A. Hartford Foundation and Erin Emery-Tiburcio, Associate Professor of Geriatric & Rehabilitation Psychology and Geriatric Medicine at Rush University Medical Center.
With the number of older adults in the United States projected to double in the next 40 years, hospitals and health systems are adapting low-tech, value-based strategies to improve patient outcomes for older adults. This issue brief highlights ways that age-friendly care鈥檚 4Ms Framework and鈥
Leaders of Rush University Health System (RUSH) in Chicago began implementing the 4Ms Framework to improve the lives of older adult patients, their families and caregivers and, in the process, RUSH employees.
Kent Hospital in Rhode Island opened an Adult Care for Elders (ACE) unit to test and implement the Age-Friendly Health Systems 4Ms Framework. Since opening, the unit has seen a reduction in length of stay and falls with injury, along with an increase in patient and staff satisfaction.
The webinar explores the importance and integration of the 4Ms Framework 鈥 What Matters, Medications, Mentation and Mobility 鈥 to provide high-quality care that meets the unique needs of older adults in hospitals.
August 19, 2020
11 A.M. CT | 12 P.M. ET