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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. These are vaccinated folks who come in.

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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. For the most part, programs are doing, twice a day, nursing visits. They’re doing, once a day, either MD, or MP, or nurse practitioner visits in the home as well. That started in November of 2020. Annals of Int Med.

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