A Fall Prevention Awareness Webinar
V-HIP
Veterans Hip Injury Prevention
A Strategy to Prevent 10,000 Fractured
Hips a Year
Here's What You'll Learn
About This Webinar
Hip fractures remain one of the most devastating and costly injuries facing older Veterans, with mortality rates as high as 32%, and 50% of survivors unable to regain independent mobility. Despite decades of investment in fall prevention, incidence among male Veterans continues to rise. Join Dr. David Shulkin, Ninth U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs as he presents the Veterans Hip Injury Prevention (V-HIP) framework: a layered strategy complementing the VHA’s existing fall-prevention infrastructure with injury mitigation technology at the moment of impact.
What We'll Cover
This session will cover the issue of fall injuries among Veterans, the clinical and economic case for action, and a phased implementation roadmap including how VA leadership, clinical champions, and Veterans Service Organizations can help to bring this injury mitigation model to VISNs nationwide.
Who Should Attend
- VHA clinical leaders in geriatrics, primary care, orthopedics, and physical/occupational therapy
- Falls prevention program staff
- Care coordination teams
- Health economists and VA finance/budget analysts
- VISN administrators and program directors
- Veterans Service Organization (VSO) representatives
- Osteoporosis/bone health specialists
Learning Objectives
- Understand why hip fractures among Veterans are still rising, even with strong prevention programs already in place.
- See the true cost of a hip fracture, in dollars and in a Veteran's independence and quality of life.
- Learn how preventing fractures instead of treating them could save the VA hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
- Discover a promising new way to protect Veterans in the exact moment a fall happens.
About ActiveProtective
Active Protective Technologies, Inc. is at the forefront of medical device innovation, dedicated to enhancing the lives of older adults. Founded by Lieutenant Colonial Dr. Robert Buckman, an American trauma surgeon and inventor, the company's pioneering solution, the Tango Belt, is a prescription medical device indicated as an adjunct to standard of care that delivers active treatment during a serious hip impacting fall. Through its use of on-board sensors and algorithms, patient movement is actively monitored and automatically triggers deployment of an airbag to bilaterally surround the hips within 90 ms, attenuating ground impact forces on the hip that could otherwise result in serious hip injury.
Meet Dr. David J. Shulkin, MD
The Honorable David J. Shulkin, MD
The Honorable Dr. David J. Shulkin was the ninth Secretary of the US Department of Veterans Affairs in the Trump Administration and VA’s Under Secretary of Health in the Obama Administration. As such, Secretary Shulkin was the only member of the Cabinet to have served both Presidents and to have been confirmed by the US Senate by a vote of 100-0.
Secretary Shulkin served as chief executive of leading hospitals and health systems including Beth Israel in New York City, Morristown Medical Center in Northern NJ and he currently serves on the Board at Sanford Health, one of the country’s largest rural healthcare systems.
Secretary Shulkin is a board-certified internist. He received his medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania, his internship at Yale University School of Medicine, and a residency and Fellowship in General Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Presbyterian Medical Center. He received advanced training in outcomes research and economics as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. He is on the faculty at the Uniformed Health Services University Medical School.
Over his career Secretary Shulkin has been named “One Hundred Most Influential People in American Healthcare” by Modern Healthcare. He continues to advocate on behalf of the country’s veterans by serving on the board of numerous nonprofits that serve veterans, is the host of the popular Policy Vets Podcast, and is the author of the recent book, “It Shouldn’t Be This Hard to Serve Your Country: Our Broken Government and the Plight of Veterans”.
