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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. So, how do we establish standards so that you even get the basic care you need for your cognitive or physical functional issues? 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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