Northwell Health, New York’s largest healthcare provider, has made it a strategic system goal to provide age-friendly care. Northwell Health has 18 emergency departments (ED), one pediatric and 17 that treat more than 850,000 patients of all ages, 33% of them 65 and older. Northwell Health’s commitment to improving care for… Read more »
Tufts Medical Center, located in the heart of Boston’s Chinatown, serves a diverse population. Between 15% and 20% of patients speak Cantonese or Mandarin, and roughly 11% of emergency department (ED) patients seen are 65 or older. In 2018, Tufts Medical Center was the first hospital in New England to become a… Read more »
Geriatric emergency departments (GEDs) provide tailored, geriatric-specific care to older adults within the emergency department with the goal of transitioning patients to the most appropriate setting of care and avoid default in-patient hospital admissions. At West Health, we believe that Value Based Care Organizations (VBCOs) and GEDs can forge aligned partnerships to… Read more »
Being admitted to the hospital can be a disruptive and uncomfortable experience, especially for our aging patients. It is not uncommon for older patients to leave the hospital less functional and more cognitively impaired than when they entered the hospital. Geriatric emergency departments (GEDs) are specially designed to provide geriatric-specific emergency care…. Read more »
As hospitals and health systems expand their ownership and control of ambulatory care practices, they are frequently charging new facility fees for routine medical services delivered in outpatient settings. Consumers, in turn, are facing greater financial exposure to these facility charges as insurance deductibles increase and payers develop new benefit designs that… Read more »
West Health in collaboration with the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) conducted an analysis of the high prices that employer-based insurance pays hospital outpatient departments for clinical lab tests. We found that insurers are paying 3 times more for identical tests (such as simple blood and urine tests) when billed by hospital… Read more »
The West Health Institute in collaboration with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement developed the Home-based Acute Care Getting Started Guide as part of our 2019-2021 work. This resource guides the process for designing and implementing home-based clinical and operational acute care models for older adults. Created by and designed for organizations in the early stages… Read more »
By. Robert E. Mechanic, MBA; Jennifer Perloff, PhD; Amy R. Stuck, PhD, RN; and Christopher Crowley, PhD OBJECTIVES: To describe the use of home-based services in accountable care organizations (ACOs). STUDY DESIGN: Cross-sectional analysis of 2019 ACO survey. METHODS: We analyzed surveys completed by 151 ACOs describing the characteristics of home-based care programs… Read more »
America’s seniors are increasingly finding it harder and harder to pay for prescription drugs. The 2021 Healthcare in America Report, published in December 2021, details the experiences and the impact these costs are having on seniors including skipping medications to save money or foregoing care all together. Data Highlights More than 1 in 10 Americans… Read more »
