DALLAS—Enhabit, Inc., a home health and hospice provider, announced it has been awarded the Age-Friendly Care at Home Certification from Community Health Accreditation Partner (CHAP). Enhabit is the first home health provider to receive the CHAP certification for its home health agencies in Petersburg, Virginia, and Clermont, Florida.
The CHAP certification program brings Age-Friendly Health Systems, an initiative of The John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF) and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in partnership with the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA), to home health and hospice settings. The movement said it has been shown to reduce cost of care, improve clinical retention and satisfaction and improve patient outcomes.
“We are proud to be at the forefront of bringing the Age-Friendly Health Systems movement to home-based care,” said Bud Langham Enhabit executive vice president of clinical excellence and strategy. “While we’ve always focused on delivering evidence-based, patient-centered care, this movement provides a clear framework on how to incorporate these elements into our standards of care in a way that benefits our patients, clinicians, referral sources and payers.”
Enhabit said CHAP certification demonstrates it meets the industry’s highest nationally recognized standards for age-friendly care. The rigorous evaluation by CHAP focuses on providing a set of four evidence-based elements established by the Age-Friendly Health System movement known as the 4Ms: What Matters, Medication, Mentation and Mobility.
“Enhabit has played an instrumental role in helping us bring the 4M Framework to the home setting,” said Teresa Harbour CHAP chief operating officer. “As part of our volunteer advisory group, the Enhabit team helped us develop the certification program along with educational tools and resources. We look forward to continuing to work together to ensure older adults receive care that focuses on what matters to them.”
