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

GeriPal

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? Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy? So we know these patients are really, really sick.

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

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Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. The other physicians who previously saw patients in the nursing home are no longer coming to your facility because you have COVID positive patients. You’re short on nurses and nurse aids so now you have to help deliver meals.”.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. And we then did a bunch of work to develop medical criteria, to choose the right patients for hospital-at-home. Patients will come into the ER, they bypass the inpatient experience entirely, and go straight home. That started in November of 2020.

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