Reduce Avoidable Utilization by Standardizing Home Safety Across Managed Care Networks
Age Safe® America provides senior home safety certification and training for managed care organizations, helping payers reduce fall-related utilization by deploying a practical, scalable prevention standard across provider and community networks.
- Reduce fall-related ED visits, admissions, and readmissions
- Standardize prevention execution across network partners
- Improve member stability, quality outcomes, and PMPM performance
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Why Safety Standardization Matters for MCOs
Falls and home environment hazards are a leading driver of avoidable utilization among high-risk members. Emergency department visits, hospital admissions, and readmissions related to falls increase Total Cost of Care, disrupt care plans, and destabilize members aging in place.
While many network partners recognize the risk, home safety execution varies widely. Without a shared, role-based standard, prevention efforts are inconsistent, difficult to measure, and hard to scale.
Avoidable ED visits and hospitalizations increase total cost of care
Prevention execution varies across partners without a standardized framework
Network-wide programs must be simple to deploy, sustainable, and defensible
How MCOs Deploy Our Safety Framework
Senior Home Safety Specialist® (SHSS)
Structured home safety assessment framework for care teams
- Used by care management, navigation, and community program leads within partner organizations
- Provides a structured approach to identifying, prioritizing, and documenting home safety risks
- Establishes a consistent assessment framework that can be deployed across diverse partner types
Home Safety Fundamentals (HSF)
Baseline standard for frontline and community roles
- Used by roles with frequent member touchpoints
- Standardizes hazard recognition, safety reinforcement, and escalation behaviors
- Improves consistency between formal clinical encounters
Common Add-ons
Volume Discounts Available
Organizations enrolling teams in managed care certification courses receive discounted pricing.
Groups of 30+ receive up to 25% off. Pricing scales with team size.
Benefits That Matter to Managed Care Organizations
Real business impact from a safety-first approach
Utilization & Cost Management
- Reduced fall-related ED visits, admissions, and downstream complications
- Improved member stability supports PMPM economics and value-based performance
Network Enablement
- Standardized home safety training reduces variability across partner organizations
- Improves adoption of prevention workflows and behaviors
Quality & Member Experience
- Tangible prevention intervention increases member and family confidence
- Aligns with aging-in-place priorities and quality outcome measures
Scalability
- Pilot with one partner, population, or region
- Scale to a network-wide managed care home safety standard
Why Choose
Age Safe® America?
Age Safe® America?
Join thousands of professionals, agencies, and caregivers who trust Age Safe America to help them create safer homes, grow their businesses, and support older adults in aging in place with confidence.
Nationally recognized home safety certification programs for managed care teams
Role-based deployment model aligned with payer and provider network realities
Pilot-first approach supports controlled rollout and outcome attribution
Partner-friendly design that is easy to operationalize across organizations
Trusted by Thousands of Professionals
Hear from certified specialists who have transformed their careers and made a difference in seniors’ lives.
Falls Are the Most Expensive Preventable Event in Your Network.
Hip fractures cost $40,000–$60,000 in the first year. Fall prevention feeds directly into the HEDIS measures that drive your Star Ratings — and with $12.7 billion in the MA quality bonus pool tied to 4+ stars, even incremental improvement has real revenue implications. This guide shows how your existing network workforce can deliver structured prevention at scale.
How It Typically Works
Define Scope
Identify target populations, regions, and provider partners.
Assign Roles
Assign assessment-capable roles for SHSS and frontline roles for HSF.
Pilot
Launch with one partner or region and evaluate adoption and workflow fit.
Scale
Expand across partners to establish a network-wide standard.
Define Scope
Define target populations, regions, and partner organizations.
Assign Roles
Assign assessment-capable roles for SHSS and frontline roles for HSF.
Pilot
Pilot with one partner or region and evaluate adoption and workflow fit.
Scale
Expand to additional partners and scale to a network-wide standard.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Senior Home Safety Specialist® (SHSS) certification is a structured training program that equips care management and frontline teams with standardized methods to identify and document in-home risks for high-risk members.
Standardized home safety training ensures that fall risks are consistently identified, prioritized, and reinforced across provider networks, leading to fewer preventable ED visits, hospital admissions, and readmissions.
Certification courses are typically completed by care managers, nurses, social workers, community health workers, navigators, and frontline roles with frequent member touchpoints, using role-based training aligned to network workflows.
Yes. The training equips your care teams with specialized frameworks to manage the unique fall risks, mobility constraints, and environmental hazards facing your older adult members.
Programs are deployed using a pilot-first approach, allowing managed care organizations to test adoption with one partner or region before expanding to a network-wide home safety standard.
Yes. By reducing preventable utilization and improving member stability, standardized home safety training supports PMPM performance, value-based care metrics, and Total Cost of Care management.
Unlike general healthcare training, Age Safe® America focuses specifically on senior home safety and fall prevention, offering nationally recognized certifications designed for real homes, interdisciplinary teams, and managed care network deployment.
Yes. Age Safe® America has been a national authority in senior home safety certification since 2015, with programs trusted by thousands of professionals across healthcare and community networks.
Select trainings, such as the Senior Home Safety Specialist® (SHSS), offer CEUs depending on role and program requirements.
Yes. The managed care training programs are well suited for Medicare Advantage, Medicaid managed care, PACE, and other payer models focused on older adults and high-risk populations.
Talk to Us About Enterprise Solutions for Managed Care Networks
We support pilots and full rollouts, helping managed care organizations deploy senior home safety certifications and training that reduce avoidable utilization and protect aging-in-place outcomes.
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Your Network Already Has Clinicians in Members' Homes. They Just Need a Standardized Protocol.
The JAMA study showed 38% fewer falls and a 111% ROI using OT-led structured assessment. Trillium Health Resources made SHSS required onboarding for 260 staff across 46 NC counties. This business case shows MCOs how to deploy the same model — no new staff, no separate visits.