“Making the case for nutrition screening in team-based primary care to meet the needs of your frail clients”, presented by Dr. Heather Keller.
Did you know that ….
- Malnourished patients cost $2000 more per hospital stay and cost an addition 2 billion dollars per year in health care costs?
- Malnourished seniors are three times more likely to fall?
- Malnutrition = fragility?
Primary care is the optimal place for the identification and treatment of malnutrition by team-based care. Primary care providers play a key role in treatment of this preventable disease (diagnostic code 263.) Nutrition screening in FHTs started in 2016 and now over a hundred teams are screening. This webinar will make the case for nutrition screening as a means of shifting primary care to ‘upstream’ prevention of undernutrition and eventual frailty. Come learn how team-based primary care teams can improve health care for pre-frail and frail clients.