ApogeeCare Co-Founder Kevin Biese, MD, Featured in The New York Times Coverage on the Future of Emergency Care for Older Adults

ApogeeCare Co-Founder Kevin Biese, MD spoke to The New York Times about the growing movement to transform emergency care for older adults.

The national feature examines how specialized approaches are helping hospitals better address the complex needs of an aging population while improving hospital capacity and reducing health care costs for patients and Medicare.

Older adults often come to emergency departments with more than a single medical concern. They may be managing multiple chronic conditions, medications, mobility challenges, cognitive changes, and social factors that all influence their health and recovery. Providing high-quality emergency care requires an approach that recognizes the whole set of complex health needs of patients, not just the immediate reason for their visit.

As an emergency physician and national leader in geriatric emergency medicine, Dr. Biese has spent his career advancing new models of care that better support older adults and the clinicians who care for them. In the article, he discusses the growing demand for geriatric emergency care and the opportunity to continue innovating and testing geriatric-focused care models that improve outcomes for older adults.

This same mission drives ApogeeCare's work.

ApogeeCare is helping health systems address the growing need for age-friendly emergency care by bringing geriatric clinical expertise into the emergency room to support emergency care teams. Through a telehealth-enabled care model, ApogeeCare helps hospitals strengthen their ability to evaluate, manage, and support older adults throughout their care journey, starting in the emergency department and extending past their discharge. This model of care is already producing results. In ApogeeCare's first hospital partnership, at Luminis Anne Arundel Medical Center, a single care team completed more than 1,300 geriatric consults in its first year and reduced patients' risk of hospitalization by 23 percent. For patients with dementia who needed to be admitted, inpatient stays were 1.4 days shorter.

As the demand for age-friendly emergency care continues to grow, ApogeeCare is committed to supporting healthcare organizations in delivering better experiences and outcomes for older adults. In its first year at Luminis Anne Arundel Medical Center alone, that work returned more than 1,300 hospital bed days to the health system.

Read the full New York Times article: [링크 텍스트에 하이퍼링크 연결]

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