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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. 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?,” Maybe vaccines, maybe. HPV vaccine.

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

GeriPal

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back two very special guests who were with us early in the COVID pandemic, and really shown a light on what was happening for the rest of us who could see this giant wave coming, and were just thirsty for information and experiences from those people who were experiencing it early. This is Eric Widera.

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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. I distinctly remember being in the ER, trying to recruit patients for this program. And that’s more standard.

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