Advancing Geriatrics Emergency Care as the Standard of Care, Phase 5

Grant Summary

This initiative will strive to make geriatrics emergency care the national standard of emergency department practice through three grants:

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (PI: Kevin Biese, $2,399,967), will continue support for the Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative (GEDC) to build a financially sustainable national hub for geriatrics emergency care, including a new cohort for rural and safety net hospital members.
• New York University (PI: Ula Hwang, $1,225,631) will update the Geriatrics Emergency Department Guidelines that set standards for this work, and will continue to advance the evaluation, dissemination and adoption of sustainable geriatrics emergency care best practices.
• The American College of Emergency Physicians (PI: Jonathan Fisher, $1,064,128) will receive funding to continue the Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation (GEDA) program, which recognizes emergency departments for meeting a set of standards and best practices, including initiatives focused on resource-limited settings, veterans and advocacy.

The John A. Hartford Foundation will continue partnering with the West Health Institute to support this initiative.

Related Grant Resources

• Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative
• Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation Program
• Academic Emergency Medicine Special Collection: Geriatric Emergency Medicine, part 1
• Journal of the American Geriatrics Society Paper: Association of Geriatric Emergency Department Care With Hospitalization and Mortality in Older Adults
• Previous Phase: Geriatric Emergency Departments 4.0: Accreditation, Dissemination, Sustainability and Evaluation