IHI Call for Applications: Age-Friendly System-Wide Spread Collaborative
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) announced a call for applications at the beginning of the year for their new Age-Friendly System-Wide Spread Collaborative. Thirty teams were selected and the Collaborative started in April 2024.
The Collaborative is part of the Age-Friendly Health System (AFHS) movement which is focused on fully embedding age-friendly care throughout health systems. IHI is convening U.S. health systems interested in fully embedding the 4Ms system-wide, to have an equitable impact on older adults across all of their sites and settings of care.
Participating health systems are building on their progress to spread age-friendly care system-wide, and support from expert faculty and peers is available throughout the 18-month Collaborative. Participants will have the opportunity to be among the first to achieve an ambitious new IHI recognition for system-wide spread of age-friendly care.
Application to the Collaborative was open to health systems, hospitals, ambulatory care practices, convenient care clinics, and nursing homes that have at least two sites that have achieved Committed to Care Excellence recognition.
Access the slides from the January 10 IHI Age-Friendly Collaborative information session.
Applications were due February 2.
Action Community
IHI and the American Hospital Association are continuing to host seven-month Age-Friendly Health Systems Action Communities for teams to learn about, test, and adopt the 4Ms in their care setting. Action Communities are an effective pathway for getting started or engaging additional sites of care in your health system in adopting age-friendly care. The next Action Community begins in March and registration is open. Learn more in the Action Community Invitation to Join.
Learn more about the Collaborative and the selected thirty teams.
Go to the Collaborative Prospectus.
Learn more about the next Action Community.
Learn more about AFHS.
Learn more about JAHF's co-support of the AFHS initiative.