AGS Extends Hip Fracture Co-Management Program That Sees Geriatrics Mending More Than Bones

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The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) is launching a new national hip fracture co-management program.

Following an earlier planning grant from The John A. Hartford Foundation under which the AGS developed a viable business strategy and implementation plan to disseminate the geriatrics-orthopedics co-management model to hospitals and health systems nationwide, the AGS team was awarded a new grant to move forward with a three-year implementation plan for its first specialty-specific co-management program. This program positions geriatricians and geriatrics-trained clinicians as co-managers with orthopedic surgeons to improve care and health outcomes, while lowering costs, for older adults with hip fractures.

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