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

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” And the requests from management were to ask her to prescribe antipsychotics to try and sedate some of these behaviors away. 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. I barely know what it is.”

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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We would find these people in the hospital, and we said, “What would you have thought if someone had come up to you in the emergency room yesterday, and said, ‘Hey, instead of going upstairs, you could go home.’ By the year 2000, everyone will be in a Medicare managed care plan.” And you get the DRG.

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