Four New Grants Totaling $5.5 Million Approved by JAHF Board of Trustees at December 2016 Meeting
The John A. Hartford Foundation Board of Trustees approved four new grants totaling $5.5 million in December 2016 to accelerate the move to age-friendly health systems that measurably improve care for older adults while lowering costs.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Age-Friendly Health Systems
($3,190,452 for 42 months)
The John A. Hartford Foundation has partnered with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the American Hospital Association to develop and test a health systems-wide prototype of care for older adults, measuring the impact on health systems as compared with those lacking such an approach. Working with four major health systems in this phase, the goal is to spread the evidence-based Age-Friendly Health System prototype to 20 percent of hospitals and health systems in the U.S. by 2020.
American Geriatrics Society: Geriatric Orthopedic Hip-Fracture Co-Management Implementation
($1,399,263 for three years)
A grant to the American Geriatrics Society will disseminate a geriatrics-orthopedic co-management intervention that improves the experience and outcomes of care for hip-fracture patients while reducing costs. The project builds on a recent planning grant which demonstrated a clear need and a viable market for adoption of a co-management model, and which also developed a business plan to disseminate the model to academic and community hospitals and health systems nationwide.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Development of the High-Need, High-Cost Playbook Version 2.0
($180,838 for one year)
The John A. Hartford Foundation has continued its partnership with four other foundations—The Commonwealth Fund, the Peterson Center on Healthcare, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and The SCAN Foundation—in supporting better care of people with complex health and social needs, many of whom are older adults. Together, as an initial step, the foundations are working with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement to launch a dynamic online resource, or Playbook, for leaders of Accountable Care Organizations and Medicare Advantage plans that curates information and resources on approaches to better care for high-need, high-cost populations.
Education Development Center: National Co-Laboratory to Address Elder Mistreatment
($774,984 for two years)
A grant to the Education Development Center will convene leading national experts in four states across the country to develop, test and evaluate a prototype model of intervention for victims of elder mistreatment. An estimated 10 percent of older adults—5 million people—are victims of elder abuse, neglect, exploitation and other forms of mistreatment. The intervention to be developed will ensure that older people seen in hospital settings, including emergency rooms, will be assessed for potential mistreatment and will receive appropriate treatment and referral.
For more information, read JAHF President Terry Fulmer’s Health AGEnda post.