WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Victor Tabbush, PhD, Adjunct Professor Emeritus, UCLA Anderson School of Management Robert Scott Dicks, MD, FACP, Chief, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology; Director, Geriatric Me​dicine, Hartford Hospital Christine Waszynski, APRN, Coordinator, Inpatient Geriatric Services, Hartford Hospital Suzanne Engle, RN, BSN, Director of Care Coordination, St. Vincent/Ascension Jennifer Allbright, RN, BSN, Manager, Center for Healthy Aging, St. Vincent/Ascension It hasn't always been easy to talk about the business case for quality improvement, let alone isolate the financial benefit. Now, there's a way to do both, in the context of transformative, age-friendly care. On this episode of WIHI our expert panel discusses a new IHI and Age-Friendly Health Systems (AFHS) report, The Business Case for Becoming an Age-Friendly Health System, and reviews the Report’s two prominent case studies: Hartford Hospital and St. Vincent’s Hospital. The panel discusses the potential to unlock cost savings and generate n