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Yale’s Ula Hwang discusses why older patients need particular care in emergency departments and shares her work on improving their care in New Haven and beyond.

New London — With the country’s 85-and-older population growing three times as fast as the general population, it’s important that hospital emergency rooms be equipped to provide elderly patients with...

Mar 4, 2021 Emergency departments may reap financial benefit of targeted innovations An emergency department innovation program designed for geriatric care resulted in substantial cost savings, researchers found. With such a program, those researchers, led by Ula Hwang, MD, MPH, found there was a significant association with reduced total costs of care for geriatric patients after being seen by either a transitional care nurse and/or social worker trained to deliver geriatric emergency care. Their study was published in As pointed out by Hwang and colleagues, there has been an increase in th...

Geriatric Emergency Care Experiences Lower Medicare Expenditures by Hannah Joy on  March 1, 2021 at 9:35 PM Total cost in geriatric emergency care has been reduced, reveals a new study. More than 20 million elderly visit the emergency departments every year in the U.S. Roughly one third of those patients are admitted to the hospital often because they cannot be safely discharged to their home. For an older patient, hospitalization comes with the increased risk of infection, falls, delirium, functional decline and death. Hospitalizations also come with increased cost to th...

As the US population ages, more hospitals are implementing geriatric emergency department (GED) programs with specialized staff focused on transitional care for older adults aimed at reducing unnecessary hospitalizations and improving outcomes for this vulnerable patient population. A new study finds that providing specialized geriatric emergency care results in lower Medicare expenditures up to $3,200 per beneficiary.