FAHQ presents Age Friendly Hospital Measure: A Roadmap for Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services New Hospital Quality Reporting Program

 FREE for NEAHQ members; $30 for non-members

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About the Program: 

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced its FY2025 Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems final rule that includes a new Age Friendly Hospital Measure. Hospitals can take advantage of JAVA-supported initiatives to help meet this new measure. Beginning in 2025, hospitals that participate in Medicare’s Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program are required to report on whether hospitals have protocols in place to: 1) elicit patient health care goals, 2) responsibly manage medications, 3) implement frailty screening and intervention (including for cognition and mobility), 4) assess social vulnerability (e.g. social isolation, caregiver stress, elder abuse) and 5) designate age-friendly leadership. Hospitals not participating in the IQR program, which now includes this mandatory measure, face a significant reduction in their annual Medicare payment update. The public will be able to see how hospitals report on this measure through CMS’s Care Compare website. This presentation will provide a road map and examples to implement age-friendly care to satisfy the new CMA guidelines. 

About the Speaker:

Cassandra Vonnes, DNP, GNP-BC, APRN, GS-C, AOCNP, EBP-C, CPHQ, AGSF, FAHA, FAAN 

Clinical Measurement RN, Clinical Quality Management Program, Defense Health Agency, Akahi Associates, LLC  

Dr. Vonnes is a certified Gerontological and Advance Oncology Nurse Practitioner and Fellow of American Heart Association, American Geriatric Society, and American Academy of Nursing. Her previous experiences include teaching at the USF College of Nursing for undergraduate and nurse practitioner students and was recognized as a Hartford Distinguished Educator Geriatric Nursing. She has worked as a nurse practitioner in internal medicine and cardiovascular medicine in both acute and outpatient settings. She serves on the national Nurse Leadership Board of AARP and on the Aging Policy Committee of the American Geriatric Society, who recognized Dr. Vonnes as a Fellow in 2023. Under Dr. Vonnes leadership Moffitt Cancer Center was the first hospital in Florida and first cancer center in the US to be recognized the Institute of Healthcare Improvement as Age Friendly Health System Committed to Care Excellence for the Older Adult. She has presented nationally and internationally on Fall and Injury prevention, delirium, and geriatric assessment. Dr. Vonnes hosts the podcast GAPNA CHAT that features leaders in Geriatric Health Care. The Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association awarded her the Excellence in Leadership 2022 Award and the Oncology Nurses Society Excellence in Care for the Older Adult with Cancer Award in 2019.

CE Credit: 

• 1.0 hour – FAHQ is a Florida Board of Nursing approved provider (Provider #50-17380)
• This program has been submitted for pre-approval by NAHQ® for 1.0 hour of CPHQ recertification CE credit.