Yale’s Ula Hwang discusses why older patients need particular care in emergency departments and shares her work on improving their care in New Haven and beyond.
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New London With the country’s 85-and-older population growing three times as fast as the general population, it’s important that hospital emergency rooms be equipped to provide elderly patients with.
Mar 4, 2021
Emergency departments may reap financial benefit of targeted innovations
An emergency department innovation program designed for geriatric care resulted in substantial cost savings, researchers found.
With such a program, those researchers, led by Ula Hwang, MD, MPH, found there was a significant association with reduced total costs of care for geriatric patients after being seen by either a transitional care nurse and/or social worker trained to deliver geriatric emergency care. Their study was published in
As pointed out by Hwang and colleagues, there has been an increase in the implementation of geriatric emergency department (GED) innovation programs over the past several years, marked by the creation of the first GED accreditation program in 2018 by the American College of Emergency Physicians. Established in order to recognize hospitals for their high levels of geriatric care, GED accreditation has now been granted to more than 170 emergency departments (EDs) a