Community project funding/congressionally directed spending - construction - for northwell health, new york's largest health system, being age friendly means encompassing the full continuum of care,…

Community project funding/congressionally directed spending - construction - for northwell health, new york's largest health system, being age friendly means encompassing the full continuum of care, from outpatient primary care and community resources to inpatient hospital, post-acute services, long term skilled care and end of life. Northwell recognizes that supporting both professional and lay caregivers is critical to providing high quality, patient centered care, and keeping older adults living at home. That is why the health system proposes to build upon existing strengths at glen cove hospital and in the glen cove community, health system and region: the geriatric center of excellence at glen cove hospital. The geriatric center of excellence will serve as a hub in education and research as well as advocacy for older adults and those with advanced illness. IT will standardize and implement evidence-based programs that provide high quality care and can be replicated throughout the new york metro region and on a national level. Its goals include advancing the skillsets of the health care workforce geriatrics and palliative medicine through collaborative excellence in clinical care, education, research, and advocacy and developing, studying and dissemination innovative best practice programs and initiatives to improve quality of life for older adults and those with serious illness. The appropriation funding fully support the geriatric and palliative care ambulatory practice portion of the geriatric center of excellence. The ambulatory practice will provide clinical and behavioral assessment and continuity of care for frail older adults. In addition to providing the much-needed ambulatory practice, the geriatric center of excellence will be the thought and advocacy leader for northwell's mission imperative to improve care for older adults. IT will strategize on pilot clinical program development within the hospital and serve the glen cove community, surrounding area and beyond with a goal to replicate widel y. Glen cove hospital is a part of northwell health, which is a designated palliative care leadership center by the center to advance palliative care, one of nine in the nation that trains other health systems on developing palliative programs. Its expertise in this area will be applied to the geriatric center of excellence in curriculum development and educating others on program development and advocacy as well as providing high quality care and service to frail older adults through the geriatric and palliative care ambulatory practice. In addition, as a member of northwell, glen cove hospital benefits from the health system's IHI and john a hartford designations as an age friendly health system based on the various programs IT has been able to replicate across the system. This experience is being brought to the geriatric center of excellence at glen cove where replication to other systems will be taught and promoted. The geriatric center of excellence meets an unmet regional need for a large increasingly vulnerable senior population whose numbers are growing by the day and whose challenges include but are not limited to delirium, fall, pressure injuries, alzheimer's and dementia, medication issues, multiple comorbidities, and caregiver support. IT is nota a situation that will resolve on IT sown. Long island, comprised by its two counties nassau in the west and suffolk in the east, and the entire new york metro region are in need of a comprehensive, evidence-based approach to care for a vulnerable senior population that is aging in place and touches older adults of all ethnicities and races and their family members. Beyond the island, the geriatric center of excellence at glen cove hospital will provide geriatric research, advocacy, and a clinical hub to benefit the entire greater new york metro region.