As an active participant in the Age-Friendly Health Systems movement, United Zion Retirement Community is proud to have achieved special recognition as an Age-Friendly Health Systems — Committed to Care Excellence by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
An Age-Friendly Health System is one in which every older adult’s care is guided by an essential set of evidence-based practices known as the 4Ms: what matters, medications, mentation and mobility. Care teams recognized as age-friendly reliably implement the 4Ms together in every encounter with older adults. The 4Ms ensure that every older adult’s care causes no harms and is consistent with what matters to the older adult and their family.
United Zion Retirement Community is proud to join the ranks of organizations globally achieving success toward excellence in care for older adults.
The Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative continues to be an important part of our overarching vision to provide every older adult in our community with the best care possible. We strive to achieve recognition of excellent care from older adults in our community, whom we serve.
Age-Friendly Health Systems is an initiative of The John A. Hartford Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), in partnership with the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the Catholic Health Association of the US (CHA). For more information, visit www.ihi.org/agefriendly.