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title: "About Us"
url: https://uprightfallprevention.com/about-us/
description: "The mission, goals and vision of AHI of Indiana, Inc., publisher of the Upright fall prevention program."
---

# About Us

AHI of Indiana, Inc.

## Mission

AHI of Indiana, Inc. is dedicated to reducing the risk of individual harm and unnecessary human and social costs from injurious patient falls in acute-care hospital populations, ambulatory care centers, clinics and long-term assisted living communities by providing educational and consultative support for the Hendrich II Falls Risk Model™.

## Our Goals

- To provide superior fall prevention education and information to the healthcare industry that will enable research-based practice and the use of evidenced-based risk factors to prevent human suffering from injurious falls
- To provide the customer with knowledge, skills, and a tool to assesses and intervene proactively to prevent or eliminate the relative risk for an injurious fall event.

## Vision

The vision of AHI of Indiana, Inc. is to work in partnership with healthcare entities to provide an affordable, evidenced-based, comprehensive fall prevention program to reduce human suffering, and unnecessary health care costs.

## Applied Research

Validation of the Hendrich II Fall Risk Model: A Large Concurrent Case-Control Study of Hospitalized Patients. *Applied Nursing Research*, Vol. 16, No. 1 (February), 2003: pp 9-21 by Ann L. Hendrich, Patricia S. Bender and Allen Nyhuis.

[Review our applied research](https://uprightfallprevention.com/fall-prevention-research/)

## Across the Continuum of Care

- [Managed Care](https://uprightfallprevention.com/continuum-of-care/)
- [Acute Care](https://uprightfallprevention.com/continuum-of-care/)
- [Ambulatory Care](https://uprightfallprevention.com/continuum-of-care/)
- [Medical Home/Assisted Living](https://uprightfallprevention.com/continuum-of-care/)
- [Population Health](https://uprightfallprevention.com/continuum-of-care/)

## Fall Prevention Updates

Fall related news and research summaries published on this site between 2013 and 2015.

- November 2, 2015 [In-Hospital Neck of Femur Fractures Increased Mortality](https://uprightfallprevention.com/hospital-neck-femur-fractures-increased-mortality/)
- November 2, 2015 [Falls Screening in England and Wales](https://uprightfallprevention.com/falls-screening-england-wales/)
- November 2, 2015 [Expanding Adverse Event Reporting to Drive Quality Improvement](https://uprightfallprevention.com/expanding-adverse-event-reporting-drive-quality-improvement/)

[Read fall related news](https://uprightfallprevention.com/hendrich-ii-fall-risk-model/in-the-news/)

To ask for the program mailing list, write to [info@uprightfallprevention.com](mailto:info@uprightfallprevention.com).

## Contact

[866.653.6660](tel:+18666536660)
[info@uprightfallprevention.com](mailto:info@uprightfallprevention.com)

[Request additional information](https://uprightfallprevention.com/contact-us/)