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Community Integration: Pushing the Boundaries for a Better World

Integrated Care News by CFHA

Residents and local leaders joined forces to send food and clothing to the island and to welcome newly arrived families to their town. The Holyoke Health Center, in collaboration with the Family Resource Center at Enlace de Familias , played a pivotal role in this local relief effort.

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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

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So, how do we establish standards so that you even get the basic care you need for your cognitive or physical functional issues? For those of you who do family meetings, doesn’t that take a lot of time? And family members should know that this needs to go on.” ” Sheryl, what do you think?

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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But as we talked to patients and providers, there was, really, this need for patients who wanted services, like IV antibiotics and IV fluids, but wanted to be able to spend that time at home, with their family, even if it meant it was their last days or weeks. And that’s a totally, totally appropriate question. Eric: Yeah.

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