Search johnahartford.org Sort by: Relevance Most Recent Oldest Searched for | Total Results: 2142 Understanding Health IT-Enabled Performance Improvement for Older Adults March 17, 2015 - Under the leadership of Ashish Jha, MD, a Harvard-based researcher and health policy expert, this project will fill a current gap in knowledge about how best to deploy electronic health records (EHRs) and other health information technology (HIT) to improve safety, quality, and cost in the care of older adults… Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP): Taking to Scale March 17, 2015 - This two-year grant will support the dissemination of the evidence-based delirium prevention and management Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP). Delirium is a common adverse occurrence among hospitalized older adults and is associated with longer hospital stays, higher costs of care, and other poor outcomes for patients, including death. HELP was… Practice Change Leaders Renewal 2015 March 17, 2015 - The Practice Change Leaders for Aging and Health Program aims to address a crucial need for leaders in practice settings—including physicians, nurses, and social workers—with the skills and knowledge to implement services that are both cost-effective and improve the health of older adults. Under the leadership of Eric Coleman, MD… OPTIMISTIC Resource Center Planning Grant March 17, 2015 - This planning grant will assist in the preparation for dissemination of OPTIMISTIC, a model of care providing medical, transitional, and palliative care for older adults residing in nursing homes. Long-stay nursing home residents suffer from high rates of multiple chronic illnesses and dementia. Despite their needs and frailty, their care… American College of Surgeons Geriatric Surgery Verification and Quality Improvement Program June 10, 2015 - The American College of Surgeons (ACS), in partnership with The John A. Hartford Foundation, will conduct a four-year initiative leading to improved care of older surgical patients through a standards and verification program for hospitals. The Geriatric Surgery Verification & Quality Improvement Program will produce a framework for improved geriatric… George Washington University National Health Policy Forum 2015 June 10, 2015 - The John A. Hartford Foundation has renewed core support for the non-partisan, DC-based National Health Policy Forum to provide a venue for bi-partisan dialogue and unbiased, expert-driven educational sessions and products for congressional and executive branch staff that will result in the crafting of better policies that meet the health… American Geriatrics Society Geri Ortho Hip Fracture Co-Management Planning Grant June 10, 2015 - This planning grant to the American Geriatrics Society will support the development of a viable business strategy and an implementation plan for a Geriatrics-Orthopedic Co-management Intervention. Geriatric co-management is the systematic use of geriatrician specialists to provide pre- and post-operative care for surgical patients, using standardized protocols and best practices… YMCA of the USA Preventing Diabetes Among Older Adults 2015 June 10, 2015 - Adult-onset (or “Type 2”) diabetes is among the most prevalent and fastest growing of chronic diseases. Pre-diabetes, a precursor to Type 2 diabetes, affects 86 million adults, including 20 million older adults, or approximately 50 percent of the population age 65 and older. In the absence of effective intervention, most… University of Washington Social Innovation Fund Renewal 2015 June 10, 2015 - This grant to the University of Washington’s Advancing Integrated Mental Health Solutions (AIMS) Center will support The John A. Hartford Foundation’s federal Social Innovation Fund (SIF) initiative and develop an organizational process assessment to help spread the IMPACT/Collaborative Care model of depression treatment in primary care—a signature model of care… Yale University Patient Priorities Care (formerly known as Carealign Implementation) June 10, 2015 - This renewal proposal represents the second phase of an effort to implement and test the feasibility and sustainability of a prototype for “patient goals-directed” care, a model initially referred to as Carealign. The model was developed with a broad group of stakeholders organized by geriatrics leaders Mary Tinetti of Yale…
