Recognition Dashboard for Age-Friendly Health Systems

2024-2025 American Hospital Association Action Community 6

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement recognizes clinical care settings that are working toward reliable practice of evidence-based interventions for all older adults in their care known as the 4Ms (4Ms: What Matters, Medications, Mentation, Mobility). As of June 2025, nearly 5,000 health care organizations have earned either level 1 (Participant) or level 2 (Committed to Care Excellence) recognition in the Age-Friendly Health Systems movement.

Level 1 (Participant) teams have successfully developed plans to implement the 4Ms.

An Age-Friendly Health System Participant has completed a 4Ms Care Description to outline how it will assess, document, and act on all 4Ms at its care setting. At first, their 4Ms Care Description might represent a plan that they will test and work towards reliably performing. 4Ms Care Description fillable PDF forms for submission can be found on the IHI Recognition page.
Level 2 (Committed to Care Excellence) teams have three months of data of older adults who received 4Ms care.

An Age-Friendly Health System — Committed to Care Excellence is working toward reliable practice of the 4Ms. They have achieved level 1 and have submitted at least three months of counts of the number of older adults that have received care that included all 4Ms. Counts of older adults reached can be submitted with the bottom portion of the 4Ms Care Description form that was submitted for level 1 recognition.

Age-Friendly Health System recognitions are made at the facility level including hospitals, practices, nursing homes and convenient care clinics. This dashboard has been specifically crafted for participants of the 6th AHA Action Community to track their progress towards achieving recognition. Once recognition has been achieved, the site name is added to IHI’s public list of recognized Age-Friendly Health Systems.