Assisted Ambulation to Improve Health Outcomes for Older Medical Inpatients

Designated mobility technicians (MT) will ambulate hospitalized medical patients up to 3 times daily, 7 days per week, until discharge or a maximum of 10 days. Each day, the MT will visit the patient 4 times or until the patient successfully ambulates 3 times that day. In cases where a PT has provided a recommendation in the patient's chart, the MT will follow the recommendation, if feasible. Otherwise, the MT will execute the standard mobility protocol. The mobility protocol will allow the MT to assist a patient with an appropriate out-of-bed activity based on their 6-clicks score from the immediately preceding session.