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• Master Plan for Aging
• Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)
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Events

• Events
• 2018 AGS Pre-conference: From Research to Reality May 2 | Orlando, FL
• 2022 National Acute Care for Elders (ACE) Conference
• ACEP18 Pre-Conference Events
• Addressing the Unaffordability of Health and Long-Term Care for California’s Middle-Income Older Adults
• ASA’s On Aging 2021: Promoting Healthy Aging and Taking Bold Action to Solve Our Healthcare Cost Crisis
• ASA Webinar: An Integrated Model of Dental, Health and Wellness Care for Older Adults
• CA Aging Network Legislative Reception: An Evening for Reflection on Aging and Equity
• Congressional Briefing: The Burden of High Drug Prices Among Communities of Color
• Drug Pricing Reform: The Costs of Inaction
• Fifth International Vatican Conference: Quelling the Quandary of Drug and Therapy Affordability for Chronic Diseases
• Geriatric Emergency Department Peer Learning Session: Delirium Screening & Medication Reconciliation Protocol
• Geriatric Emergency Department Peer Learning Session: How the Geriatric Emergency Nurse and Care Team address the 4Ms
• Grantmakers in Aging Conference
• Healthcare at the Crossroads: Policy, Politics and Public Opinion
• How Large Employers View Rising Health Care Costs and the Role of Government
• Intersecting Equity, Health, Housing, and Workforce with Aging: New Philanthropic Opportunities
• MedCity ENGAGE Conference
• Multisector Plan for Aging: A Future Proof Live Event
• National Multisector Plan for Aging Symposium
• PACE 2.0: READY TO GROW
• WEBINAR: Advancing Geriatric Emergency Care: Best Practices and Accreditation Strategies (April 24, 2023)
• WEBINAR: Advancing Geriatric Emergency Care: Best Practices and Accreditation Strategies (July 12, 2023)
• WEBINAR: Advancing Geriatric Emergency Care: Best Practices and Accreditation Strategies (October 25, 2023)
• WEBINAR: Advancing Geriatric Emergency Care: Best Practices and Accreditation Strategies (September 18, 2023)
• Webinar: Business Speaks: The Future of Employer-Sponsored Insurance
• Webinar: San Diego Science & the Global Pandemic: The Impact of COVID-19 on Seniors

News

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• 3 in 4 Americans Under 65 Are Worried About Future of Medicare
• 3 out of 4 Americans give healthcare affordability a D or F grade: Gallup survey
• Accredited Geriatric Emergency Departments Continue to Grow Within VA Hospitals
• Advocates seek other pathways to lower drug prices
• After Nine Months, an Update on NIH’s Long Covid Research
• Americans are curbing health spending as inflation rises. Here’s how employers can help
• A Proven Model to Combat U.S. Drug Shortages
• ASA LeverAGE Podcast: Value-Based Care and Telehealth
• Becerra orders Medicare to reconsider premium hike following price drop for Biogen’s Aduhelm
• CBS News 8 San Diego: New COVID-19 vaccination site opens in San Marcos just for seniors
• Clinicians Reluctant in Providing Telehealth Care to Older Adults, National Survey Finds
• CMS kicks off price negotiations with Big Pharma for 10 drugs for Medicare
• Collaborative for Telehealth and Aging, led by West Health, releases first-ever guidelines for providing remote care to seniors
• Dementia and delirium in the ER: Providing better care for older patients
• ‘Fear’ and healthcare: Gallup survey finds Americans skipped treatment, borrowed $88B to pay for costs
• ‘First in the nation’: San Diego now has 18 hospitals offering specialized ER care for seniors
• Greater Healthcare Price Transparency Could Save $100 Billion Over 10 Years
• House Democrats Expect Drug Price Cap to Cover Employer Plans
• KPBS: Seniors-Only COVID-19 Vaccination Site Opens In San Marcos
• KUSI: California’s first accredited emergency room created for seniors
• KUSI: Nonprofit Gary and Mary West Pace center to help North County seniors
• Legal fights and loopholes could blunt Medicare’s new power to control drug prices
• Lilly, AZ, AbbVie and J&J face big potential hit from Medicare pricing bill: analysts
• Many Clinicians View Telehealth as ‘Dangerous’ Option for Seniors
• May Revise Delivers on Some Master Plan Aging Priorities, But Greater Budget Commitment is Needed
• Medicare is going to cap patients’ spending on drugs. But there’s no such limit for hospital or doctor bills
• MedStar Health and West Health Institute to Catalyze New Care Delivery Models and Innovative Solutions
• More Americans can now get insulin for $35
• More Than 30 Health-Driven Organizations Pledge Their Commitment to Age-Inclusive Telehealth
• NBC 7 San Diego: For San Diego Seniors, Making Vaccination Appointments is as Easy as Calling 211
• NBC 7 San Diego: New San Marcos Vaccination Site Caters to Senior Citizens
• Nearly 40% of Voters May Cross Party Lines for Candidate with Plan To Lower Healthcare Costs
• Newsradio 600 KOGO: How To Get Cheaper Prescription Drugs
• New Study Shows Applying Value-Based Insurance Design to High-deductible Health Plans Could Benefit Millions of Americans
• New Survey Finds 75% of Americans Feel Mental Health Takes Back Seat to Physical Health Within U.S. Healthcare System
• New West Health-Gallup Poll: 114 Million Americans Think the U.S. Healthcare System is Failing Them
• Opinion: Elderly San Diegans require all-inclusive care. PACE programs show how it can be done.
• Opinion: There’s good reason to be thankful: Democrats are no longer in charge of the People’s House
• Our Opinion: A lack of faith in healthcare providers
• Pharma Report: Inside Eli Lilly’s Move on Insulin
• Poll by Gallup and West Health shows 75% of Americans grade the affordability of US healthcare as a D or F
• Press Release: AAHCM Launches Educational Initiative to Demonstrate the Value of Home-Based Primary Care to Payers and Providers
• Reforming The FDA’s Paragraph IV Requirement To Encourage Faster Generic Drug Entry
• Regardless of Political Party, Americans Overwhelmingly Support Medicare Drug Price Negotiations
• Republican ideas to reform Medicare could rile healthcare industry
• Researcher Says Govt. Price Negotiation Saves More Than Generics
• San Diego Senior Emergency Care Initiative Launches with All Major Health Systems in Region Committing to Pursue Senior-Friendly Emergency Department Accreditation
• SDNews.com: Doctor UC San Diego Health discusses Senior Emergency Care Unit at LJCC
• Senior Living Faces Unique Challenges in Implementing Widespread Telehealth Use
• Social Security has to be fixed. But you still need your own savings.
• SPECIAL BLOG SERIES: A “How-to” on Integrating Value-based Care Models into Existing Contracts
• States increasingly look to regulate hospital facility fees
• Stress Prominent Among U.S. Adults Struggling to Pay for Care
• Telehealth brings big advantages for older adults, but new ‘guard rails’ could significantly bolster care
• The 3 Principles That Make Telehealth for Older Adults Successful
• The Crushing Impact of High Healthcare Costs on Seniors
• The Gary and Mary West Foundation Applauds Governor Newsom’s $1 Billion Budget Proposal for California’s Seniors
• The San Diego Union-Tribune: Region’s hospitals vow to improve emergency care for seniors
• The San Diego Union-Tribune: UC San Diego opens new senior-focused emergency unit
• The San Diego Union-Tribune: West Health Takes Lead in Enabling Seniors to Successfully Age with Innovative Telehealth Program
• The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles joins in a collaborative effort with Care Mission USA and the Taiwan Shihlin Electric and Engineering Corporation to donate 20,000 surgical masks to San Diego
• Three Funders Pool Efforts to Allow Older Americans to Age in Place
• UC San Diego Office of the Chancellor Blog: California’s First Senior Emergency Care Unit Opens
• Urgent Matters Publishes Institute’s Overview of Home-Based Healthcare Options at the Emergency Department
• USA Today: Foxhole Promises Made Good: Two Vietnam Vets Turn to Lives of Service
• VA emergency departments ready for growing population of older Veterans
• West Health and Hospital Association of Southern California Partner to Boost Geriatric Emergency Accreditation for Region’s Hospitals
• West Health and Sharp Memorial Hospital Launch Initiative to Develop Model of Excellence for Older-Adult Care
• West Health and UC San Diego Health Celebrate Grand Opening of New Gary and Mary West Senior Emergency Care Unit
• West Health and UC San Diego Health Fuel New Wave of Geriatric Emergency Departments in California
• West Health Applauds California’s Commitment to Partner with Civica Rx for Insulin at Low, Transparent Price for All
• West Health Collaborates with Philips on New AgingWell Hub Announced During White House Conference on Aging
• West Health Comments on Reports that Senate will Advance Prescription Drug Reform Through Reconciliation
• West Health Comments on Senate Action to Advance Prescription Drug Reform
• West Health-Gallup Poll: 70% of Americans Uncomfortable with Prospect of Being Admitted to Nursing Home
• West Health Institute Applauds Congress For Extending Successful In-Home Senior Care Program
• West Health Statement on Strategic Plan for Aging Act
• West Health Statement on the Signing of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
• With Improved Standards, Telehealth Could Significantly Enhance Senior Care
• With Philanthropy Leading the Way, States Are Planning for an Aging America

Content Authors

• Amy Herr
• Amy Stuck, PhD, RN
• Brenda Schmitthenner
• Caroline Picher
• Charles Sederstrom
• Christopher Crowley, PhD
• Cristina Boccuti
• Elvira Makk Frid
• Gary West
• Jon Zifferblatt
• Kevin Biese, MD
• Liane Wardlow
• Marc Harper
• Mark B. McClellan, MD, PhD
• Mary West
• Nicholas J. Valeriani, MBA
• Ross Colt
• Sally Hallak, CPA
• Sean Dickson
• Shelley Lyford
• Timothy Lash
• Tiffany Yu
• Yuvraj Pathak
• Zia Agha, MD

Resources

• Resource Center
• PACE Telehealth Playbook
• 2021 Healthcare in America Report
• 2022 Healthcare in America Report
• 2024 Healthcare in America Report
• 7 Key Steps in Developing New Options for Responding to Unplanned Acute Care
• ACEP Podcast: How does your institution become a Geriatric Emergency Department
• Acute Care at Home
• Adding a Cap on Out-of-Pocket Costs in Medicare
• Article: Why States Need Master Plans for Aging
• ASA: Let’s Pick Up the PACE: Expanding the Reach of the Gold Standard Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly
• A Scarce Resource: Cleveland Clinic’s Innovative Geriatric ED Reduces Avoidable Admissions
• Assessing The National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers as a Model to Inform Efforts to Advance a National Plan on Aging
• Association Between Physical Therapy in the Emergency Department and Emergency Department Revisits for Older Adult Fallers: A Nationally Representative Analysis
• Benchmarking Healthcare Affordability and Perceived Value
• Bleeding Americans Dry: Messaging the High Cost of Corporate Health Care
• California’s Seniors and Families Are Counting on Governor to Sign AB 523
• Caregivers are not visitors
• Characteristics of Home-Based Care Provided by Accountable Care Organizations
• COVID-19 in Older Adults: Key Points for Emergency Department Providers
• Creating High-value Care for Seniors Through Geriatric Emergency Department Partnerships
• Data Science Platform as a Service: An Approach for Non-Programmers
• Delirium in the Older Emergency Department Patient
• Developing a Multisector Plan for Aging in Your State? Advice from Someone Who’s Been There
• Diabetes Tops Common Conditions For Frequent Geriatric Emergency Patients
• Emergency Department Care Transition Programs—Value-Based Care Interventions That Need System-Level Support
• Executive Summary | Pharmacy Benefits Manager Reforms: Can Congress Fix the Market Without Breaking It?
• FAQ – Employer-Based Health Plans
• Fast PACE Start-Up and Expansion Guide
• Geriatric Emergency Department (GED) Fact Sheet
• Healthcare Cost Burden among Adults with Employer-Sponsored Insurance
• Healthcare Price Transparency: Policy Approaches and Estimated Impacts on Spending
• Health Savers Initiative: Capping Hospital Prices
• Health Savers Initiative: Equalizing Medicare Payments Regardless of Site-of-Care
• Health Savers Initiative: Reducing Medicare Advantage Overpayments
• Home-based Acute Care Change Package: Appendix
• How Multisector Plans for Aging and PACE Can Work Together to Improve Care for Older Adults
• How Venture Philanthropy Can Disrupt Health Care: Lessons from Civica Rx
• Improving Hospital Compliance With Price Transparency Rules
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Trading Spaces: Remodeling Acute Care for Seniors
• Interoperability: A call to action. HCI-DC 2014
• Join the Movement: Every State Should Have a Multisector Plan for Aging
• KPBS Video: Gary and Mary West PACE Grand Opening
• Letter to Ways & Means Committee hearing, “Caring for Aging Americans”
• Malnutrition Resources Toolkit
• Master Plan For Aging
• Master Plan for Aging Stakeholder Advisory Committee and Philanthropic Partners Support Governor’s 2021-22 May Revise
• Medicare Part B Spending on Macular Degeneration Treatments Associated With Manufacturer Payments to Ophthalmologists
• Moving the needle on fall prevention: A Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research (GEAR) Network scoping review and consensus statement
• Moving to Site Neutrality in Commercial Insurance Payments
• Multisector Plan For Aging Communications Toolkit
• New Interactive Guide Looks to Make Aging in Place a Healthy Reality for More Americans
• NEW MILESTONE – Number of Accredited Geriatric Emergency Departments Surpasses 500, Elevating Care for Older Adults
• New York Just Committed to a Master Plan for Aging
• Northwell Health GEDA Case Study: Goals of Care, Throughput, Clinical Outcomes
• Older Adults’ Experience of Virtual Care: Action Steps to Increase Access and Equity
• Palliative Care Playbook for PACE
• Pharmacy Benefits Manager Reforms: Can Congress Fix the Market Without Breaking It?
• Pop Up Vaccination Point of Distribution (POD) for Seniors: A How to Guide
• Price Markups for Clinical Labs: Employer‑based Insurance Pays Hospital Outpatient Departments 3X More Than Physician Offices and Independent Labs for Identical Tests
• Protecting Patients from Unexpected Outpatient Facility Fees
• Same Service, Same Price: Promoting Policies that Curb Unfair Billing Practices and Increase Price Transparency for Health Care Services
• Shelley Lyford on the Reopening of the Gary and Mary West Senior Wellness Center
• States’ Deployment of Short-Term Funding in Home- and Community-Based Services Exposes Need for Longer-Term Investments
• Successful Aging: A Future to Look Forward To
• Supporting Local Multisector Plans for Aging in Rural Communities
• The Case For Accountable Care Organizations To Partner With Geriatric Emergency Departments
• The Impacts of the West Health-UCSD Geriatrics Quality Improvement Science Fellowship
• The Road to a COVID-19 Vaccination Is a Bumpy One for Many Older Adults
• Tufts Medicine Geriatric Emergency Department Case Study
• Understanding Pathways to Medicaid Eligibility Among California’s Medicare Beneficiaries
• Using Telehealth to Care for Seniors at Programs for the All-Inclusive Care of the Elderly
• West Health Encourages Community to Support Age Friendly Hospital Measure CMS-1808-P
• West Health Submits Comments to Federal Trade Commission on RFI Docket No. ATR 102

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