AHA webinar to discuss age-friendly hospital measure

The American Hospital Association will host a webinar on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services age-friendly hospital measure on Nov. 20 at 12:00 p.m. ET. Caitlin Gillooley, director of quality and behavioral health policy at the AHA, will describe how hospitals can attest to activities within five domains deemed essential to providing clinical care to patients over 65 years old. Evelyn Ivy Mwangi, MD, geriatric hospitalist at Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Md., will describe how becoming an Age-Friendly Health System has helped the health care organization to meet this measure successfully. Participants should register in advance.