Systems Addressing Frail Elders (SAFE) Care Implementation
Systems Addressing Frail Elders (SAFE) Care Implementation
Systems Addressing Frail Elders (SAFE) Care is a nurse-led interprofessional team model to
 rapidly identify and provide safe and effective inpatient care to high risk older adults and
 help support their successful transition back to the community. Developed and demonstrated to
 be effective in one hospital - the model is now being disseminated and studied in three
 additional hospitals (multiple organizational case study).
Three Magnet hospitals in Los Angeles County (Huntington Hospital, Torrance Memorial Medical
 Center and Ronald Reagan UCLA Health System) are collaborating on this demonstration and
 evaluation project (Multiple Case-Study Design). The project will engage interprofessional
 hospital leadership; provide training and coaching in implementation processes of the SAFE
 Care model; and track outcome of the SAFE Care model as implemented in the three
 collaborating site hospitals (three case studies). The investigators hope to contribute to
 the existing state of the science in dissemination and implementation of evidenced-based
 innovations. The collective data from the three sites (collected through interviews with
 hospital leadership and staff and with de-identified patient data on program implementation
 outcomes) will provide information about the effectiveness of the implementation process and
 support further dissemination.
Inclusion criteria:

 Organizational Leadership Nursing Unit Leadership/staff Adults aged 65 years

 Exclusion criteria:

 65 years and older that are on hospice protocols or dying/comfort care protocols.