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

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Darrell: Then I had another one that was much later in the process that was actually vaccinated, who was over 90, who had a lot of medical issues. We had a very big second surge here in November, where the first surge was really nursing home population. These are vaccinated folks who come in. We have lost so many nurses.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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By the year 2000, everyone will be in a Medicare managed care plan.” Patients will come into the ER, they bypass the inpatient experience entirely, and go straight home. For the most part, programs are doing, twice a day, nursing visits. I distinctly remember being in the ER, trying to recruit patients for this program.

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