MGB West Health Champions 2026-2027

The West Health Champions program will provide participants with education and training in the fundamentals of delivering Age-Friendly care to older patients, focused on the 4Ms of Medication, Mentation, Mobility, and What Matters. West Champions will learn quality improvement and leadership techniques to enable the spread of evidence based geriatric care throughout MGB.

Target Audience

This activity is intended for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, dieticians, psychologists, physician assistants, social workers & other members of the healthcare team within Mass General Brigham.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  1. Describe the 4Ms of an Age-Friendly Health System.
  2. Identify potentially inappropriate medications for older adults.
  3. Identify & screen for dementia and delirium among hospitalized older adults.
  4. Identify strategies to elicit “what matters” to older patients.
  5. Develop a mobility care plan to maintain or improve mobility during a hospitalization.
  6. Distinguish the difference between aging and frailty and assess strategies to identify & mitigate frailty.
  7. Describe the “current state” for a quality improvement project.
  8. Implement diagnostic data to identify a target area for a quality improvement project.
  9. Develop a SMART Goal for a quality improvement project.
  10. Summarize change data from a quality improvement project.
  11. Assess team dynamics & evaluate how to best team with, from, and about eachother.

Additional Information

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Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 27.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 27.50 Nursing Contact Hours
  • 27.50 Participation
Course opens: 
06/05/2026
Course expires: 
06/04/2027
Cost:
$0.00
  • June 11 - 12, 2026 Kick-Off Retreat
  • July 17, 2026 QI Overview
  • August 14, 2026 Problem Statement & QI Ideas 
  • September 18, 2026 Fishbone Diagrams & Impact/Effort Matrix
  • October 16, 2026 Stakeholder Lists
  • November 20, 2026 Process Maps
  • December 11, 2026 SMART Goal/Aim Statement & Baseline Data
  • January 29, 2027 Mid-Year Retreat
  • February 26, 2027 Measurement Plan & PDSA Cycles
  • March 19, 2027 Results & Conclusion
  • April 2, 2027 Presentation Prep I
  • May 7, 2027 Presentation Prep II
  • June 2027 Graduation

Rachelle Bernacki, MD - Course Co-Director
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director of Quality Initiatives, Psychosocial Oncology & Palliative Care – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Andrea Schwartz, MD, MPH - Course Co-Director
Associate Professor in Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Amy Bulger, MPH, RN, GERO-BC, CPHQ
Director of Geriatrics Operations, Center for Geriatric Surgery & Department of Nursing – Brigham & Women’s Hospital

Sharon Levine, MD
Section Head, Geriatric Medicine – Division of Palliative Care & Geriatric Medicine – Massachusetts General Hospital

Elizabeth Lindenberger, MD
Interim Division Chief, Palliative Care & Geriatric Medicine – Massachusetts General Hospital
Director, Continuum Project – Massachusetts General Hospital

Lynne O'Mara, PA-C, MBA
Clinical Program Manager, Center for Geriatric Surgery – Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Senior Administrator of Inpatient Operations, Brigham & Women’s Hospital

Matthew Russell, MD
Medical Director, Senior Health Clinic - ​​​​​​​Massachusetts General Hospital

In support of improving patient care, Mass General Brigham is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Credit Designation Statements

AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM
Mass General Brigham designates this live activity for a maximum of 27.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing
Mass General Brigham designates this activity for 27.50 ANCC contact hours. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Available Credit

  • 27.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 27.50 Nursing Contact Hours
  • 27.50 Participation

Price

Cost:
$0.00
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