JANUARY 8 2025 – The West Palm Beach VA Health Care System (WPBVAHCS) announces the recognition of the Community Living Center (CLC) as Committed to Care Excellence by the Age-Friendly Health System.
The acknowledgement is based on a 4Ms framework: 1. What Matters: Health care goals and preferences across all settings of care; 2. Medication: Medication that does not interfere with what matters most to the patient; 3. Mentation: Prevention, identify, treat, and manage dementia, depression and delirium and 4. Mobility: Ensure the older adults move safely daily to maintain function and do what matters.
The recognition of practicing “What Matters” is a gap identified in healthcare by older patients in clinical interactions and settings…