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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? It was like this patient is on hospice and call the case manager to figure out how the patient ended up here. Corita 10:59 No, it was rather simple. No, no, no.

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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. By the year 2000, everyone will be in a Medicare managed care plan.” Patients will come into the ER, they bypass the inpatient experience entirely, and go straight home. For the most part, programs are doing, twice a day, nursing visits.

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