The Institute for Healthcare Improvement Diagnostic Excellence - Age-Friendly Health Systems Seed Grant Program: Cohort 2 Awards Announced
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has awarded seed grants to six health systems for testing new and novel ways to improve the care and outcomes of older adults through the reliable implementation of best practices and innovations supporting age-friendly diagnostic practices.
The Diagnostic Excellence – Age-Friendly Health Systems (DxEx – AFHS) Seed Grantees will focus on improving diagnosis for older adults through new interventions aligned with the 4Ms of Age-Friendly Health Systems: What Matters, Medications, Mentation and Mobility. During the 18-month grant period, IHI will engage awardees in a Learning Network that will facilitate learning among the grantees and support integration of quality improvement in all projects.
Grantees were selected for their ability to support clinicians in various settings, foster meaningful engagement of older adult patients and families, and improve equity and mitigate disparities based on age, race/ethnicity, gender, and/or social determinants of health using a combination of scientific research methods and quality improvement methods. The Cohort 2 grant recipients are:
- Cedars Nursing Care Center: Integrating Age-Friendly Care and Diagnostic Excellence: A Strategic Approach to Reducing SNF Rehospitalizations.
- Department of Emergency Medicine Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack Meridian Health: Decreasing Rates of Aspiration Pneumonia in Older Adult ED Patients Through Early Diagnosis and Intervention on Dysphagia.
Pennsylvania State University Hershey Medical Center: Polypharmacy in Older Adults: A Pathway to Safer and More Equitable Care.
Riverside Center for Excellence in Aging and Geriatric Health D/B/A Riverside Martha W. Goodson Center: Integration of an Artificial Intelligences Cognitive Assessment Platform to Promote Earlier Detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Early Dementia.
University Physicians & Surgeons Inc. (Marshall Health): Integration of an Artificial Intelligences Cognitive Assessment Platform to Promote Earlier Detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Early Dementia.
- University of Toledo Foundation: Focuses on improving hypertension diagnosis and management through simulation-based training and home blood pressure monitoring.
The DxEx – AFHS Seed Grant Program is supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and JAHF.
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