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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? And it’s very traumatic obviously for the family and all of that and the team really. So I’m going to be called every 20 minutes to go to the ER.

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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. Darrell: Thank you.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. But as we talked to patients and providers, there was, really, this need for patients who wanted services, like IV antibiotics and IV fluids, but wanted to be able to spend that time at home, with their family, even if it meant it was their last days or weeks. Eric: Yeah.

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