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Bouncebacks from SNFs: How one health system is making progress

Today's Hospitalist

WITH PATIENT ACUITY levels rising in hospitals, it makes sense that the patients being discharged to SNFs are likewise increasingly complex. Nieukirk explains, Puzzle Healthcare follows every single patient who is discharged from an OSF hospital to a SNF. The health system’s 30-day readmission rate from SNFs is now under 10%.

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How to manage GLP-1s in the hospital

Today's Hospitalist

Medical societies and hospitals are weighing in on periprocedural concerns in patients taking GLP-1s who need procedures or surgeries. That’s according to two internists who work closely with hospitalized patients who take GLP-1s. “I would not recommend starting a GLP-1 in the hospital.” Nor should they be.

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HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

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And when she was here, she co founded the Golden Compass Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital for older adults living with HIV. Meredith wore a shirt that said Silence=death. Eric gave me the hook during my live cover of One, by U2, a song released in 1992 whose proceeds went entirely to AIDS research. Eric 01:28 Wonderful.