GEDC 2025 Webinar Series Recording: CMS Age-Friendly Hospital Measure - Part 3 - What Matters - Eliciting Patient Healthcare Goals
The Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative (GEDC) held the third session of its 2025 CMS Hospital Measure webinar series October 27 on, "What Matters: Eliciting Patient Healthcare Goals and the CMS Hospital Measure." The recording is available.
The series featured expert advice on each of the five domains of the CMS Age-Friendly Hospital Measure.
During the webinar, experts introduced CMS Age-Friendly Measure Domain 1 and talked about its impact on emergency department (ED) care for older adults, shared practical strategies and real-world examples for eliciting patient healthcare goals in the emergency setting, and explained how they integrate goals of care in their ED workflow.
Panelists included:
- Susan Bower, MSN, RN, geriatric nurse coordinator, RST Emergency Department, assistant professor of nursing, Mayo Clinic
- Anita Chary, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, Health Services Research, Baylor College of Medicine
- Cameron Gettel, MD, MHS, assistant professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
- James van Oppen, FRCEM, MRCP, PhD, NIHR clinical lecturer in Emergency Medicine, University of Sheffield & Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Sheffield, United Kingdom
- Jessica Stanich, MD, assistant professor of emergency medicine, Mayo Clinic
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 October 27 webinar recording.
Learn more about the GEDC CMS Age-Friendly Hospital Measure webinar series.
Read a related GEDC blog, Connecting a Value-Based Care Organization to the Geriatric Emergency Department.
Read a related GEDC blog, CMS Age Friendly Hospital Measure: Resources for Emergency Departments.
Visit GEDC's website.
Learn more about JAHF's co-support of GEDC.
