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title: "Overview & Licensing"
url: https://uprightfallprevention.com/licensing-overview/
description: "An overview of the Upright fall prevention program: licensing, online education, integration and risk identification."
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# Overview & Licensing

an overview of

**Upright** is a comprehensive fall prevention program that includes the Hendrich II Fall Risk Model, online education and partner support.

## License the program for your organization

The Upright fall prevention program is designed to license your healthcare organization, practice settings, providers, and patient populations, with a fixed annual rate, during the term of the agreement. The licensure agreement includes:

- use of the research-based Hendrich II Fall Risk Model;
- unlimited access to CE–approved, online education designed for all care providers;
- partner support and additional fall prevention resources; and
- pre-built pathways to integrate the Hendrich II Fall Risk Model into your existing EHR platform or Assessment Form.

## Online education

Unlimited use of **CE-approved, online education** designed for licensed and non-licensed care providers. The program is didactic, interactive, and tests critical thinking in various scenarios to elicit fall prevention tactics and risk assessments.

## Integrate the program

**Design and build the Hendrich II Fall Risk Model into your existing EHR platform or Assessment Form** to assess and document patient risk, and align interventions to reduce fall risk, based on person-centered care development plans. **The Upright fall prevention program recommends interdisciplinary care and high reliability practices** with a team-based approach that is person-centered care and continuum-focused.

## Identify risk factors

By utilizing the Upright fall prevention program, your care provider will efficiently learn the following:

- how to objectively assess mobility and gait;
- classes of drugs that contribute to fall risk;
- the importance of elimination management; and
- the relationship of cognition and fall risk.

## Investigate & analyze

Continuous monitoring of each fall event provides insight into failure modes that result in the true cause of remaining falls. Fall huddles can provide valuable information at the care level to drive elimination of injurious fall events. **Utilize fall huddles or debriefs with control charts** to reflect on fall incidents and incorporate the findings into your program.

## Engage care providers in your organization

Care providers have a unique opportunity to take a **proactive approach to reduce injurious fall events**. Care providers should anticipate that a fall event is likely to occur based upon identified risk factors that are present with the individual. Care providers can than apply the appropriate interventions to **prevent the fall from occurring in the first place**.

## What does the Upright fall prevention program achieve?

**Upright** helps predict and prevent injurious fall events to protect persons across the care continuum.

## How does the Upright fall prevention program integrate into my facility?

**Upright** integrates into existing Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems to keep care providers informed about a patient’s fall risk.

## 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/)

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## Contact

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

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