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E-Newsletter • October 2024 |
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Editor's E-Note
Based on work by the American College of Surgeons, a new Age-Friendly Hospital Measure aims to improve outcomes of older adult patients. The measure, released by CMS, addresses the unique and complex needs of older adults and becomes effective January 1, 2025.
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Age-Friendly Hospital Measure
CMS recently released a new Age-Friendly Hospital Measure based on work by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and designed to improve the care and outcomes of older adult patients. This measure, which becomes effective January 1, 2025, will help hospitals provide high-quality, patient-centered care for older adults by driving improvement in five key areas.
All hospitals participating in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program must report on their compliance with the measure and could face significant financial penalties if they fail to do so. The measure will be reported on the CMS Care Compare website to allow patients and caregivers to know which hospitals deliver age-friendly care for seniors.
The ACS led the development of the Age-Friendly Hospital Measure in collaboration with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) with support from The John A. Hartford Foundation.
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Emotional Repercussions of Rapid Rehoming
Until recently, little was known about the impact of rapid rehousing programs on mental health. But a new study by Boston University School of Social Work researchers looks at the repercussions of moving from homeless to stable situations.
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Ageism in Health Care
In an interview, Andrew Steward, an assistant professor of social work in the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and author of “Age Discrimination in Health Care,” published by the Certified Senior Advisors Journal, discusses the impact of ageism in health care settings and points toward solutions.
How Parents’ Smart Phone Use Affects Their Children
There’s been a great deal of attention to how children’s use of devices affects their well-being, but Medical Xpress looks at how parents’ use of smartphones influences their children’s wellbeing.
Trauma-Informed Healing
Health Data Management offers a case history that sheds light on the need for care delivery models and patient experience initiatives to be informed by hearing and listening to patients. |
AI Guide
AI Agents for Healthcare, an eBook from Cognigy, offers a guide to the ways artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the delivery of patient care and the management of operations. Learn more »
Doorknob Moments
Doorknob Bombshells in Therapy: The Deadline, the Brain, and Why It Is Important to End on Time, by Daniela V. Gitlin, offers therapists evidence-based answers to approaching often stressful end-of-appointment doorknob confessions. Gitlin explains why they occur, why they are necessary to prevent treatment stagnation, and why ending time makes patients feel safer to deliver them. Learn more »
An Innovative Approach to Training Social Workers in Motivational Interviewing
The MI Companion is an asynchronous online training and learning method that uses deliberate practice exercises and feedback on mock interviews with standardized client actors to build crucial skills such as empathy, collaboration, eliciting change talk, and reflective listening. Each of the six 20-minute modules focuses on one executable skill: resisting the righting reflex, understanding motivation, listening, empowering, and structuring. It includes videos, downloadable resources, exercises, and quizzes. Learn more » |
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