GEDC 2025 Webinar Series Recording: CMS Age-Friendly Hospital Measure - Part 2 - Medication Management
The Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative (GEDC) hosted the second session of its 2025 CMS Hospital Measure webinar series. The webinar, "Medication Management and the CMS Hospital Measure," was held July 14, and the recording and slides are now available.
The webinar series featured expert advice on each of the five domains of the CMS Age-Friendly Hospital Measure. During this webinar, experts discussed how emergency departments can prepare to meet domain two of the new CMS Hospital Measure by introducing policies and procedures for responsible medication management.
The webinar was of particular interest to pharmacists and other members of the interdisciplinary team in the ED. Speakers explored best practices in medication management in the ED that enhance care of older patients, provided practical examples from pharmacists working in Geriatric EDs about useful tools to implement, including in rural and remote EDs, and introduced the GEDC Toolkit on Geri ED Medication Management.
Panelists included:
- Claire Bainbridge, PharmD, BCCCP, BCGP, Clinical Pharmacist, UCSF Health
- Mitchel Erickson, DNP, MS, BSN, BSc, ACNP-C, UCSF Geriatric Age-Friendly ED Consultant, Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, Division of Geriatrics, Clinical Professor, UCSF Department of Physiological Nursing
- Chris Fan-Lun, BScPhm, ACPR, BCGP, Clinical Coordinator – Geriatrics, Palliative Care and General Internal Medicine; Department of Pharmacy, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Practice-Based Researcher, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Adjunct Lecturer, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto
- Liz Goldberg, MD, ScM, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine
- Rachel Skains, MD, MSPH, UAB Emergency Medicine Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, UAB Medicine
Additional resources:
- GEDC Medication Management Toolkit: This toolkit provides tools, guidelines and educational resources for ED administrators and teams to successfully implement medication management quality improvement projects. It supports safe prescribing and de-prescribing for complex older patients. It includes case-making slide decks, examples of successful implementation and best practices for identifying potentially inappropriate medications.
- GEDC Blog - Meeting Domain 2 of the CMS Age-Friendly Hospital Measure: This blog provides additional context and resources to help EDs prepare for and meet the CMS measurement requirements.
- GEDC Podcast - Getting ED Specific with Medication Safety: In this GEMCast episode, Dr. Rachel Skains, assistant professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, joins host Dr. Christina Shenvi to discuss two recent studies on improving medication safety in the ED for older patients. Topics include adverse drug events, risks of potentially inappropriate medications and best practices to optimize medication safety in fast-paced emergency settings.
GEDC's CMS Age-Friendly Hospital Measure webinar series topics were:
- April 7 - The CMS Age-Friendly Hospital Measures and the Geriatric ED
- July 14 - Medication Management and the CMS Hospital Measure
- October 27 - What Matters: Eliciting Patient Healthcare Goals and the CMS Hospital Measure
Watch the recording of the July 14 webinar.
Learn more about the GEDC CMS Age-Friendly Hospital Measure webinar series.
Explore the GEDC Medication Management Toolkit.
Read the GEDC Blog.
Listen to the GEMCast Podcast episode.
Visit the GEDC's website.
Learn more about JAHF's co-support of GEDC.
