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

GeriPal

And of the ER screening program, I’ve seen 266 people, 266 goals of care conversations in the ER, which were pretty significant. Darrell: Gosh, in the ER group, at the end of the first surge, had me come to their staff meeting, gave me a beautiful award and made me an honorary member of the Emergency Medicine Group.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

The other way to think about who’s eligible… I talked about coming at this from a diagnosis point of view, people with certain conditions that you need to be hospitalized for. Patients will come into the ER, they bypass the inpatient experience entirely, and go straight home. And that is, definitely, one way to approach it.

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