{"id":474,"date":"2016-09-28T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-dev.med.unc.edu\/ihqi\/improvement-scholars\/projects\/copy5_of_carolina-conexiones-satisfaction-and-flow-for-spanish-speaking-families-in-nc-children2019s-hospital-outpatient-clinics\/"},"modified":"2019-04-15T10:59:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T14:59:26","slug":"falls-risk-management","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ihqi\/programs\/improvement-scholars-2\/falls-risk-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Falls Risk Management for Patients in Primary Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- portlet_header --><\/p>\n<p><!-- portlet_above --><\/p>\n<p><!-- description --><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000\">Lead<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Vicki Mercer, PT, PhD<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000\">Aim<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Decrease risk of falls in UNC primary care patients who are 65 years and older, ambulatory, and enrolled in Medicare.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"internal-link\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ihqi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/463\/2017\/09\/preventing-falls-mercer.pdf\" target=\"_self\">2017 IHQI Symposium Presentation Slides<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/heelstream.med.unc.edu\/Playlist\/g8Q3Pfm5\"><em>(Falls Risk Management Segment: 2:07:00\u20132:29:00 minutes of Improvement Scholars Symposium 2017)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000\">Project Accomplishments<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Promotion of physical therapy referral for appropriate patients and implementation of Otago intervention in physical therapy practices continues<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000\">Presentations<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Mercer VS, Melton J, Waycaster B, Zimmerman M. Falls risk assessment and intervention for older adults: An interprofessional approach. Northwest AHEC; April 23, 2018; Boone, NC.<\/li>\n<li>Mercer VS, Melton J, Zimmerman M. Falls risk assessment and intervention for older adults: An interprofessional approach. Northwest AHEC; November 9, 2017; Winston-Salem, NC.<\/li>\n<li>Mercer VS. It takes a village to prevent falls (keynote address). McDowell Falls Prevention Leadership Workshop; September 21, 2017; Marion, NC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lead Vicki Mercer, PT, PhD Aim Decrease risk of falls in UNC primary care patients who are 65 years and older, ambulatory, and enrolled in Medicare. 2017 IHQI Symposium Presentation Slides (Falls Risk Management Segment: 2:07:00\u20132:29:00 minutes of Improvement Scholars Symposium 2017) Project Accomplishments Promotion of physical therapy referral for appropriate patients and implementation of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ihqi\/programs\/improvement-scholars-2\/falls-risk-management\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Falls Risk Management for Patients in Primary Care\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68816,"featured_media":0,"parent":5004,"menu_order":100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-474","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Falls Risk Management for Patients in Primary Care - Institute for Healthcare Quality Improvement<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ihqi\/programs\/improvement-scholars-2__trashed\/falls-risk-management\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Falls Risk Management for Patients in Primary Care - Institute for Healthcare Quality Improvement\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lead Vicki Mercer, PT, PhD Aim Decrease risk of falls in UNC primary care patients who are 65 years and older, ambulatory, and enrolled in Medicare. 2017 IHQI Symposium Presentation Slides (Falls Risk Management Segment: 2:07:00\u20132:29:00 minutes of Improvement Scholars Symposium 2017) Project Accomplishments Promotion of physical therapy referral for appropriate patients and implementation of &hellip; 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