Home After A Hospital Stay: How Covid Disrupts Care Needs
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Home After A Hospital Stay: How Covid Disrupts Care Needs

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacted a brutal toll across our entire healthcare system. Our attention is understandably focused on resource and staff shortages at hospitals. Safe home discharges for all patients, Covid and non-Covid, are likewise affected by these same disruptions to medical supplies and home care providers, from skilled nursing services and therapists to…

Safe Hospital Discharge to Home Over the Phone: A 4-Part Series to Help You Plan
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Safe Hospital Discharge to Home Over the Phone: A 4-Part Series to Help You Plan

Week #1 in this series No time during a hospitalization is potentially more at risk for confusion and communication breakdowns, even in normal times, than at discharge when a patient is transitioning from hospital to home. It is at this moment that the burden of care shifts squarely to the shoulders of family. Caregiver Issues…

Five Tips for Families and Friends to Improve Remote Caregiving for a Hospitalized Loved One
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Five Tips for Families and Friends to Improve Remote Caregiving for a Hospitalized Loved One

When a loved one is hospitalized, family and friends always mobilize to be at bedside to provide comfort and protection. Families know their loved one best and consequently have an innate grasp of what matters most for the patient during any health crisis. Now with the pandemic families must contend with the unthinkable – a…

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