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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

The songs about how saving lives is actually a pretty complicated business. And that’s the complication here is there’s so many things that the staff can be trained on. A lot of assisted livings, it’s acted like it’s not even a choice, that it’s usually the default is you go to the emergency room.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

The pneumonia could get treated, but I think geriatricians, actually, were well aware of iatrogenic complications of care and quality gaps, even well before the IOM reports of the late 1990s and the like. And then, the patient can bypass the emergency room entirely. This is before value-based care, all of that.

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