Invitation to Join: Age-Friendly Health Systems Action Community
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is inviting health systems to join the next Age-Friendly Health Systems Action Community that starts in March 2020.
Becoming an Age-Friendly Health System entails reliably providing a set of four evidence-based elements of high-quality care, known as the “4Ms” — What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility, to all older adults in your system. The 4Ms make care of older adults that can be complex, more manageable.
An Action Community brings teams from across different health systems together to accelerate their own description and adoption of the 4Ms. Guided by expert faculty and an “all teach all learn model,” teams participate on monthly webinars, attend an in-person meeting, and test specific changes to improve care for older adults. The process is designed as an on-ramp for hospital-based teams (e.g., emergency departments, intensive care units, general wards, medical-surgical units) and ambulatory care teams (e.g., primary care, specialty care) to test and adopt age-friendly care.
IHI is holding an informational call about the Action Community on February 24.
Age-Friendly Health Systems is an initiative of The John A. Hartford Foundation and IHI in partnership with the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA).
To join IHI's upcoming Action Community, click here.
To join an informational call on February 24, click here.
To learn more about the upcoming Action Community, click here.
To read the press release, click here.
To go to IHI's Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative website, click here.
To learn about JAHF's support of the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative, click here.