# Three Initiatives, One Goal: Building an Age-Friendly Care Strategy

> Here from expert panelists in this GEDC webinar and discover how initiatives within the ED can improve care for older adults throughout the hospital.

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About This Webinar

Improving care for older adults doesn't stop at the emergency department doors. In this webinar, discover how geriatric emergency departments can serve as a catalyst for hospital-wide age-friendly care while supporting multiple national initiatives through one coordinated approach.

Learn practical strategies for extending geriatric care processes beyond the ED, hear real-world examples from hospitals leading this work, and explore how Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation (GEDA), Age-Friendly Health Systems, and the CMS Age-Friendly Hospital Measure can work together to advance better care for older adults.

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Expert Panel

Michele Bellantoni, MD, CMD
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Clinical Director, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Ula Hwang, MD, MPH, FACEP
Medical Director for Geriatric Emergency Medicine
Professor, Departments of Emergency Medicine and Population Health
NYU Langone Health; 
Core Investigator, GRECC (Geriatrics Research, Education and Clinical Center)
James J. Peters Bronx VAMC

Payal Sud, MD, FACEP
Associate Chair, Emergency Medicine - North Shore University Hospital
Chief of Geriatric Emergency Medicine - Northwell Health
Medical Toxicologist - Northwell Health
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine - Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

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Goals

Describe how the ED can serve as the catalyst and/or contributes to hospital-wide age-friendly care.

Identify strategies for extending geriatric care processes beyond the emergency department.

Learn from hospitals successfully connecting ED improvements with broader organizational initiatives by aligning initiatives such as Age-Friendly Health Systems and the CMS Age-Friendly Hospital Measure. 

Supporting Materials

 JACEP Open| May 29, 2025

Benefits of Emergency Department-Initiated Goals of Care Conversations and Palliative Care Consultations Among Older Adults with Chronic or Serious Life-Limiting Illnesses

Payal Sud shared her research on goals of care conversations and palliative consults in the ED compared to after admission. For similarly matched cohorts, patients ≥ 65 years old with ED-initiated early goals of care conversations or palliative consultations had shorter inpatient length of stay. 

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 Annals of Emergency Medicine| January 24, 2025

Goals of Care: Not Just a Patient-Centric Conversation, a Hospital Flow Intervention

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Geriatric Surgery Verification

Michele Bellantoni showed the many elements of the Age Friendly Collaborative at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, including the Geriatric Surgery Verification (GSV) Program.

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Health Affairs Scholar| August 25, 2026

Boarded patients, blurred benchmarks: an opportunity for CMS

In a recent article, Ula Hwang and her coauthors highlight opportunities to better align the Age-Friendly Hospital Measure and the Emergency Care Access and Timeliness Electronic Clinical Quality Measure and amplify their collective impact. 

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PODCAST | October 12, 2026

How to Put the 4Ms Into Practice: Age-Friendly Care in the ED

In the latest episode of GEMCast, Dr. David Zodda joins host Dr. Christina Shenvi to share his expertise on the IHI's 4Ms framework: What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility, and the importance of addressing them in emergency care.

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BLOG | October 16, 2026

Implementing ACEP’s Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation (GEDA) Supports ECAT and AFHM Compliance

Discover how GEDA criteria helps hospitals meet CMS Emergency Department Quality Measures in this new GEDC resource. 

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CMS Measure Support Guide for EDs

Aligning National & Strategic Priorities

Better care for older adults starts with concrete, evidence-based processes in the ED. Learn to drive change by aligning the CMS Measure with Age-Friendly Health Systems and GEDA Accreditation. Our new resource hub shows you how.

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