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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

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You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. They go to observation and go home or just get discharged straight from the ER? So Tammie developed something called EPIC for Emergency medicine, which is a curriculum that was one of the first ways that I think palliative care got spread in our community.

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What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

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You’re short on nurses and nurse aids so now you have to help deliver meals.”. This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. We have lost so many nurses.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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If you are interested in learning more and meeting a community of folks interested in hospital-at-home, check out the hospital-at-home user group at hahusersgroup.org or some of these publications: Hospital-Level Care at Home for Acutely Ill Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care.

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