{"id":6708,"date":"2023-10-19T16:46:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T16:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/?p=6708"},"modified":"2023-10-19T19:11:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T19:11:42","slug":"jamaica-hospital-nursing-home-reduces-patient-medications-through-partnership-with-united-hospital-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/jamaica-hospital-nursing-home-reduces-patient-medications-through-partnership-with-united-hospital-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaica Hospital Nursing Home Reduces Patient Medications Through Partnership With United Hospital Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"box_count\" share_url=\"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/jamaica-hospital-nursing-home-reduces-patient-medications-through-partnership-with-united-hospital-fund\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6709 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GettyImages-1434708636-300x114.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"157\" \/>Jamaica Hospital Nursing Home, along with six other New York nursing homes, participated in a partnership with the United Hospital Fund (UHF) to tackle the issue of polypharmacy, the practice of prescribing an excessively high number of medications to long-term care residents. The initiative aims to reduce health risks of overprescribing for residents through a process called \u201cdeprescribing,\u201d or decreasing the usage of inappropriate or ineffective medications.<\/p>\n<p>A report assessing the results of the partnership, <em>Reducing the Risk: Year 1 Report of the Polypharmacy in Nursing Homes Learning Collaborative, <\/em>showed that participating nursing homes reduced the average number of medications prescribed to patients from approximately 11 to 9. The number of residents taking 10 or more medications also decreased across all participating facilities by 16%.<\/p>\n<p>Deprescribing efforts focused on reducing medications that provided limited benefits and increased patients\u2019 risk of experiencing harmful side effects, such as dizziness and falling. Jamaica Hospital Nursing Home specifically worked to deprescribe antihypertensives, proton pump inhibitors, and multivitamins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAntihypertensives and proton pump inhibitors are used very frequently in most nursing homes and hospitals,\u201d said Louis Kaplan, the Assistant Director of Pharmacy at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, who monitored the rate at which the targeted medications were prescribed to residents. \u201cWe suspected that it may not be necessary to continue their use for many of our patients.\u201d Kaplan added that multivitamins were also targeted by the nursing home\u2019s deprescribing efforts because of the sufficient nutrition patients already receive through their regular meals, making these supplements redundant in many cases.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kaushik Doshi, the Medical Director of Jamaica Hospital Nursing Home, worked with doctors, pharmacists, and nursing staff to incorporate safe deprescribing guidelines from the UHF into the nursing home\u2019s standard patient care practices. A key aspect of this initiative involved the introduction of helpful educational tools, such as electronic medical record alerts indicating whether the targeted medications were appropriate to prescribe continuously for certain patients.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cPhysicians can be hesitant to stop medications, even when there\u2019s no clear indication that they\u2019re necessary beyond a certain point,\u201d said Dr. Doshi. \u201cThis is an aspect of healthcare that needs to change, not only here, but across all facilities and organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nJamaica Hospital is proud of the results achieved through this partnership and congratulates everyone who participated in this initiative for the work they\u2019ve done so far. We look forward to seeing the continuing impact of these practices for our patients and care provider teams in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ShareJamaica Hospital Nursing Home, along with six other New York nursing homes, participated in a partnership with the United Hospital Fund (UHF) to tackle the issue of polypharmacy, the practice of prescribing an excessively high number of medications to long-term &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/jamaica-hospital-nursing-home-reduces-patient-medications-through-partnership-with-united-hospital-fund\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[212,209,210,211],"class_list":["post-6708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jhmc","tag-deprescribing","tag-medication","tag-polypharmacy","tag-united-hospital-fund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6708"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6712,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708\/revisions\/6712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}