New York State Age-Friendly Health Systems Action Community
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RuthAnn Craven, MS
rcraven@hanys.org
The goal of the Age-Friendly Health Systems New York State Action Community is to engage hospitals and health systems to provide age-friendly care to all older adults by implementing evidence-based interventions across four elements of care, known as the "4Ms": What Matters, Medication, Mentation and Mobility.
Goals will be accomplished through:
- Facilitating an action community where participating hospitals and health systems learn from one another and study the impact of 4Ms care on staff, patients and caregivers
- Supporting participants as they test, adopt and reliably practice 4Ms care
- Engaging faculty and clinical quality experts to provide tailored education, coaching and technical assistance on 4Ms care and quality improvement processes
- Coaching hospital teams to understand their baseline performance, conducting regular data analysis, and measuring progress based on a set of standardized metrics
Participating facilities will benefit from:
- Support from faculty at the national and state levels, including clinicians and quality improvement experts specializing in 4Ms care
- Monthly meetings with HANYS staff and the faculty to learn about each of the 4Ms and discuss common challenges, coaching calls focused on specific topics and one-on-one technical assistance while testing and implementing 4Ms care
- Admission to a half-day virtual summit on age-friendly care, where each facility will develop an action plan to scale up and sustain 4Ms care for every older adult in your clinical setting
- Access to a state and national network of age-friendly health systems through the New York State Action Community website and the Action Community forum
- Opportunities to connect with other participants to share strategies, identify lessons learned, overcome barriers and expedite the implementation of the Action Community goals
- The chance to build quality improvement knowledge that can be applied beyond the scope of this initiative
A schedule of activities is provided in the recruitment package.
Eligible participants include:
- Health systems
- Hospitals
- Post-acute/Continuing care facilities
- Ambulatory care
- Home healthcare
- Federally Qualified Health Centers
- Community-based social service organizations
- Other entities that work with older New Yorkers
There is no cost for participants.
Nonprofit organizations may apply for a $10,000 stipend to support their work. Up to 20 teams will be awarded stipends;.
A link to online enrollment is available on the program website.
Provider teams may enroll in the 2023 cohort by December 31, 2022. Applications for the $10,000 stipend for Age-Friendly Action Community Participants are due November 30, 2022.
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