Joseph Ouslander, MD
FAU Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine
Health Care Innovation Hero: Joseph Ouslander, MD, Professor of Integrated Medical Science and Senior Advisor to the Dean, FAU Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, was nominated for this award for his innovation of the Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers (INTERACT) program, which assists long-term and post-acute care organizations in improving care and reducing unnecessary hospitalizations and their related complications and costs, as well as the Safe Transitions for At Risk Patients or “STAR Program”, another quality improvement program that focuses on the patient safety problem of potentially preventable hospital readmissions among older adults at high risk of complications during hospitalization and transitions between care settings.
