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Supported by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and in collaboration with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Project ECHO is launching a National Nursing Home COVID-19 Action Network.
Our team at Dakota Geriatrics in collaboration with Center for Rural Health is participating in the Network as an official training center for nursing homes.
COVID-19 ResourcesDakota Geriatrics presents educational videos addressing the age-friendly framework from recorded healthcare professional learning opportunities.
Age-Friendly Health Systems adopts the concept of applying a set of four evidence-based frameworks of high-quality care, known as the “4Ms,” to all older adults in the healthcare system. Age-Friendly Health Systems is an initiative of the John A. Hartford Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in partnership with the American Hospital Association and the Catholic Health Association of the United States.
For more resources, see our Age-Friendly Microlearning.
What Matters
Know and align care with each older adult’s specific health outcome goals and care preferences including, but not limited to, end-of-life care and across settings of care.
Medication
If medication is necessary, use Age-Friendly medication that does not interfere with What Matters to the older adult, Mobility or Mentation across setting of care.
Mentation
Prevent, identify, treat, and manage dementia, depression, and delirium across setting of care.
Mobility
Ensure that older adults move safely every day in order to maintain function and do What Matters.
Dakota Geriatrics works with primary care clinics to implement Age-Friendly Health Systems throughout the states of North Dakota and South Dakota. Age-Friendly Health Systems is an initiative of The John A. Hartford Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) to adapt evidence-based practices and align What Matters to the older adult and their family caregivers at every care interaction.
Applicant: A health system is developing a plan to adopt 4Ms framework into practice.
Level 1: An Age-Friendly Health System Participant is recognized for being on the journey to becoming an Age-Friendly Health System and has submitted a description of how it is working towards putting the 4Ms into practice.
Level 2: Age-Friendly Health System – Committed to Care Excellence is a recognition for being an exemplar in the movement based on 4Ms work is aligned with the Guide AND at least three months’ count of older adults reached with evidenced-based, 4M care.
Applicant:
Level 1:
Level 2:
The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Worksheet is a simple tool to perform rapid cycle testing to assess whether a change leads to an improvement. PDSA cycles can be logged and tracked on your project planning form.
Want better care for older adults? Dakota Geriatrics can assist clinics and long-term care programs to become Age-Friendly Healthcare systems. The certification process is sponsored by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. To become certified, clinical operations reliably adopt the 4M framework whereby each clinical encounter assesses and manages What Matters Most, Medications, Mobility and Mind. By applying this framework, better outcomes are achieved with older adult healthcare. The Dakota Geriatrics program provides 1:1 counseling and training videos to assist in the process of becoming Age Friendly.
Age-Friendly Health Systems is an initiative of the John A. Hartford Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in partnership with the American Hospital Association and the Catholic Health Association of the United States.
To begin the process in becoming Age-Friendly, and to gain access to Age-Friendly Training modules, please contact Bethany Reed.
Dakota Geriatrics works with primary care clinics to implement Age-Friendly Health Systems throughout the states of North Dakota and South Dakota. Age-Friendly Health Systems is an initiative of The John A. Hartford Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) to adapt evidence-based practices and align What Matters to the older adult and their family caregivers at every care interaction.
Age-Friendly Health Systems Recognition | Institute for Healthcare Improvement
| Love & Care, Inc | Bismarck | Outpatient |
| Sanford Medical Center Fargo | Fargo | Inpatient |
| Sanford Southpoint Internal Medicine | Fargo | Outpatient |
| Center for Family Medicine – Bismarck | Bismarck | Outpatient |
| Center for Family Medicine – Minot | Minot | Outpatient |
| Fargo VA Healthcare System GeriPACT | Fargo | Outpatient |
| Standing Rock Service Unit | Fort Yates | |
| Quintin N. Burdick Memorial Healthcare Facility | Belcourt |
IHI recognizes clinical care settings that are working toward reliable practice of evidence-based interventions for all older adults in their care known as the 4Ms (4Ms: What Matters, Medications, Mentation, Mobility). As of August 2024, nearly 5,000 health care organizations have earned either level 1 (Participant) or level 2 (Committed to Care Excellence) recognition in the Age-Friendly Health Systems movement.
For more information on who is eligible for recognition, timelines for submission to notification, and more, visit the Frequently Asked Questions section below or sign up for Office Hours to meet with our team.
Step 1. Select the 4Ms Care Description worksheet that best corresponds to your site of care
*If your health care system has multiple sites of care, please use the Committed to Care Excellence Counts (multiple sites) spreadsheet. If not, please look on the last page of your Care Description PDF Form.
Step 2. Email your completed 4Ms Care Description worksheet to AFHS@ihi.org
You should receive an email with information about your recognition status within three weeks.
Please email AFHS@ihi.org for questions or additional information on becoming recognized as an Age-Friendly Health System.
Resources for Recognition
Dakota Geriatrics’ Interprofessional Community Service Learning program, called HATS, seeks to introduce students to the full spectrum of elderly heath status and older adult wellness promotion. A dyad of interprofessional healthcare trainees is assigned to perform a modified annual wellness exam on volunteer older adults via zoom format.
Students, please contact Bethany Reed to gain access to the training.
To the members in our community, we’re always seeking volunteer older adults for a FREE visit with our students. Please view the flyer for further details.
What Matters
Know and align care with each older adult’s specific health outcome goals and care preferences including, but not limited to, end-of-life care and across settings of care.
Medication
If medication is necessary, use Age-Friendly medication that does not interfere with What Matters to the older adult, Mobility or Mentation across setting of care.
Mentation
Prevent, identify, treat, and manage dementia, depression, and delirium across setting of care.
Mobility
Ensure that older adults move safely every day in order to maintain function and do What Matters.
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