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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

No more googling "ER near me" in a panic; you can get quick and competent care at an urgent care center. A clinic is a medical facility where healthcare professionals provide specialized medical care to patients. Non-life-threatening illnesses often demand quick relief options. 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. These were usually very physically demanding, low paid, often usually non-union work, that they worked their whole lives and were hanging on by their fingernails. Maybe vaccines, maybe. HPV vaccine. They didn’t go to the psych ER again.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

Patients will come into the ER, they bypass the inpatient experience entirely, and go straight home. Go back in your mind, November of 2020, COVID is at its peak, we don’t have vaccines quite yet. Just think about something like a nurse visit, a nursing visit, or a physical therapy visit. And that’s more standard.

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