{"id":12184,"date":"2019-11-14T11:50:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T16:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/?p=12184"},"modified":"2019-11-18T19:24:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T00:24:39","slug":"bmc-joins-the-age-friendly-health-system-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/2019\/11\/14\/bmc-joins-the-age-friendly-health-system-community\/","title":{"rendered":"BMC Joins the Age-Friendly Health System Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To better support older adults and improve their health outcomes, health systems must put in place comprehensive, coordinated evidenced-based models that better deliver care to the growing aging population.<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/medicine\/files\/2019\/11\/Picture2-QI-448x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12185 alignright\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/files\/2019\/11\/Picture2-QI-448x300.png 448w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/files\/2019\/11\/Picture2-QI.png 662w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In September 2018, BMC joined John A. Hartford Foundation-Institute for Healthcare Improvement\u2019s (IHI) Age-Friendly Health System Community in spreading age-friendly care with the goal of reaching 1,000 US hospitals and 1,000 medical practices by December 2020.<\/p>\n<p>BMC is working towards a comprehensive approach to implementing best practices under the 4Ms (What <u><b>M<\/b><\/u>atters, <u><b>M<\/b><\/u>edication, <u><b>M<\/b><\/u>entation, and <u><b>M<\/b><\/u>obility) for each patient 65+ admitted to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>BMC is well on its way to becoming an Age-Friendly Health System!<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/medicine\/files\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-4.24.09-PM-514x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12211 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/files\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-4.24.09-PM-514x300.png 514w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/files\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-4.24.09-PM-768x448.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/files\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-4.24.09-PM.png 836w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To better support older adults and improve their health outcomes, health systems must put in place comprehensive, coordinated evidenced-based models that better deliver care to the growing aging population. In September 2018, BMC joined John A. Hartford Foundation-Institute for Healthcare Improvement\u2019s (IHI) Age-Friendly Health System Community in spreading age-friendly care with the goal of reaching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14042,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3146],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12212,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12184\/revisions\/12212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}