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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

Have you ever found yourself in need of medical attention but overwhelmed by the myriad of clinics and healthcare options out there? Navigating the healthcare system can be daunting, especially when you're unwell or caring for someone who is. Your insights could help someone else in their healthcare journey! What is in a clinic?

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

Alex: But the longer title’s Ethno-Geriatrics and Special Populations. So they need mainstream healthcare, and they need housing support. We met them at the steps of the jailhouse or in the ER after being up all night and said, “Hey, do you want to fill out a million pieces of paper for a 50/50 chance of getting housing?,”

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

GeriPal

This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. Darrell: Then our second surge in November pre-vaccination, were a lot of adult family homes, residential care homes.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

How can we take our healthcare system, and really break it, and do it better for older adults who may not fit within, or may not have the conveniences of going into the clinic, or going to the hospital, all these things that we think about. Patients will come into the ER, they bypass the inpatient experience entirely, and go straight home.

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