The American College of Surgeons (ACS) announced that it has been awarded a grant of approximately $200,000 from the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS), in partnership with The John A. Hartford Foundation, to advance age-friendly care in outpatient specialty and subspecialty medicine.
The funding is part of an effort to develop targeted resources and promote adoption of the “Age-Friendly Health Systems 4Ms Framework — What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility.”
The ACS grant is for “Integrating the Age-Friendly 4Ms into Ambulatory Surgery.”
“ACS will implement Age-Friendly 4Ms processes in ambulatory surgery through the development of foundational tools and an implementation guide that ambulatory surgical teams can use to deliver better age-friendly care for older adults undergoing ambulatory surgery,” states CMSS, a coalition of more than 50 organizations that represent more than 800,000 physicians.
The John A. Hartford Foundation is a private, nonpartisan, national philanthropic organization dedicated to improving the care of older adults. “The millions of older adults who visit specialists in outpatient settings for surgery, cancer care or medical treatment deserve evidence-based age-friendly care aligned with what matters to them,” said its president, Rani E. Snyder, MPA. “We thank CMSS and these participating specialty societies for their commitment to implementing the Age-Friendly Health Systems 4Ms Framework to help ensure that wherever older adults receive care, it is age-friendly.”
Grants were also awarded to the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Foundation, the American College of Rheumatology, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the American Urological Association and the Society for Vascular Surgery.
