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Celebrating a Decade of Accomplishment: The 10th Anniversary of the BAGNC

This year, 2010, marks the 10th anniversary of the Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity (BAGNC) initiative, and we’d like to offer our congratulations to the program’s leaders and its awardees. It has been a decade of remarkable achievement.

The Birth of an Initiative
The BAGNC Initiative began back in January 2000, when the Hartford Foundation held an invitational meeting to give experts and thought leaders an opportunity to discuss the major health care issues of older adults and to identify strategies to improve geriatric nursing care. Learn more...

Past Features

A Day in the Life of an Academic Geriatric Nurse:
The 2010 Hartford Annual Report

For several years, the Foundation has focused its annual reports on one program in our funded areas of medicine, nursing, social work or our service projects. In 2010, we focused on our nursing portfolio because its largest program—the Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Initiative (BAGNC)—is celebrating its 10th anniversary. This year, we employed a photo-driven format to celebrate the richness and diversity of a career in academic geriatric nursing. These remarkable photos illustrate the impact that 18 featured geriatric nurses have on education, research, practice, and policy to benefit the health of older adults. Read our blog series on the reports to learn more, or read the report here.


Developing Interdisciplinary Research Centers Hartford recently issued a report, Developing Interdisciplinary Research Centers for Improving Geriatric Health Care, about Hartford and the RAND Corporation's joint initiative to encourage health care research centers to engage in interdisciplinary research. Reach the Health AGEnda blog about the project here or download the report here.
Elder Care Specialists: A Missed Opportunity Hartford program director Chris Langston was quoted in a New Old Age blog by Paula Span, which highlighted the pressing need for more geriatricians and other geriatrics-focused health professionals and questioned the lack of incentives for geriatrics training.
Advances in Palliative Care Hartford grantee Diane Meier, MD, co-authors an editorial for The New England Journal of Medicine on a new study showing that palliative care, combined with best cancer care, improved quality of life and life expectancy for lung cancer patients. Read her Health AGEnda blog, and listen to an NPR interview here.
Reducing Readmissions California Healthline interviews Eric Coleman, MD, MPH, on shrinking the “no-care zone” between hospital and home through the Care Transitions Program and Project BOOST. Watch the video here.
Authorities on Aging: Hartford grantees discuss “Preparing More Care of Elderly” in The New York Times with perspectives from UCLA’s David Reuben, MD; the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s Geraldine Bednash, PhD, FAAN, RN; NYU’s Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, a creator of NICHE; and the University of Pennsylvania’s Mary Naylor, PhD, FAAN, RN. Read more.
Solutions to Aging Care The Washington Post and News 21 examine solutions to caring for the growing elderly population and profile two Hartford grantees: Sharon Levine, MD and the Chief Resident Immersion Training program (CRIT) (read more); and Bruce Leff, MD and Hospital at Home (read more).
Support for Scholars in Geriatric Nursing The Hartford Foundation joins forces with the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence to support doctoral candidates in geriatric nursing. Read more at the Hartford blog Health AGEnda.
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