Age-Friendly Hospital Measure: Preparing for Successful Attestation – Sept. 3,
(Aug. 28 2026) – Join the American Hospital Association's Director of Quality and Behavioral Health Policy Caitlin Gillooley to discuss the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Age-Friendly Hospital Measure. This new CMS measure assesses a hospital's commitment to improving care for patients age 65 or older. This free webinar also will highlight information about the AHA Age-Friendly Health Systems Action Community convening this fall. Implementing the AFHS framework to deliver age-friendly care can help organizations work toward attestation of the CMS measure.
Learning Objectives: CMS Measure:
- CMS' age-friendly structural measure and where it fits within its National Quality Strategy goals.
- Requirements for reporting the CMS Age-Friendly Hospital Measure.
- What to know about the "score" of the measure.
- Outline of attestation by domain. AHA AFHS Action Community:
- How using the 4Ms Framework — What Matters, Medication, Mentation and Mobility — helps reduce readmissions, decrease length of stay and improve health outcomes for older adults.
- Benefits of participating in the AHA Age-Friendly Health Systems Action Community convening fall 2026.
Speakers:
- Caitlin Gilllooley, Director of Quality and Behavioral Health Policy, American Hospital Association
- Autumn Branch, Program Manager of Population Health, HRET │ American Hospital Association
Date and Time: 11 a.m. on Sept 3
Meeting Registration - Zoom
--Terry Siek