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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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Summary Transcript Summary Hospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability (which about â…“ of older adults get during a hospital stay). 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. Annals of Int Med.

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

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In fact, no one in this hospital died that was not on comfort care. 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.