CELEBRATING THIRTY YEARS OF AGING
AND HEALTH 2012 ANNUAL REPORT
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INNOVATIVE MODELS OF CARE

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Society of Hospital Medicine – Better Outcomes by Optimizing Safe Transitions (BOOST)

2005-2010 Building on earlier Foundation-funded projects on transitional care and other studies and models from the “patient-centered care” movement, the Hartford Foundation awarded two grants to the Society of Hospital Medicine to develop and disseminate a program to make the hospital discharge process safer for older patients.

Interventions were developed to improve the transition after a hospital stay. An instruction manual was created, leadership training and mentoring was provided, and consultation was offered to community and academic hospitals to help them implement the interventions.

The BOOST program improved the process of hospital discharge for older patients at over 100 hospitals, affecting over 270,000 discharges each year. BOOST training continues to be offered by the Society of Hospital Medicine with further spread efforts supported by the California HealthCare Foundation and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association of Michigan.

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