CMS “Innovation Award” Under the Affordable Care Act to Improve Geriatric Emergency Care New York, NY (PRWEB) June 17, 2012 The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York today received a “Health Care Innovation Award” from the Department of Health & Human Services. The awards are designed to support innovative healthcare projects nationwide that enhance medical care while also reducing costs. Mount Sinai has received $ 12,728,753 to fund a Geriatric Emergency Department Innovations in Care Program known as GEDI WISE, which will provide clinical, workforce, and informatics enhancements to geriatric emergency care that are projected to improve patient outcomes while also producing a cost savings to Medicare and Mount Sinai of over $ 40 million over the next three years. The number of emergency department visits by older adults has doubled over the last decade, but in most cases the special needs of older patients are not well addressed by existing emergency department care and physical designs. The result is that an increasing n Read more text