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

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Another one had to do with the category of medical and mental healthcare providers and care. ” And the requests from management were to ask her to prescribe antipsychotics to try and sedate some of these behaviors away. Some take care of people who’ve got more healthcare needs, more mental illness, more dementia.

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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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