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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. Clinics are often smaller than hospitals and may focus on a specific type of care, such as general health check-ups, urgent care, vaccinations, or specialty services like physical therapy.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

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. The psych ER was still open, and they spent money. We basically met them.

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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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