Design and Implementation of a Skilled Nursing Facility COVID-19 Unit

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has challenged the health care system's capacity to care for acutely ill patients. In a collaborative partnership between a health system and a skilled nursing facility (SNF), we developed and implemented an SNF COVID-19 unit to allow expedited hospital disch...

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Autores principales: Verdoorn, Brandon P., Bartley, Mairead M., Baumbach, Lori J., Chandra, Anupam, McKenzie, Kyle M., De la Garza, Maria Mendoza, Sanchez Pellecer, Daniel E., Small, Tina C., Hanson, Gregory J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. 2021
Materias:
Pragmatic Innovations in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7867387/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33667426
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2021.02.001
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Sumario:Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has challenged the health care system's capacity to care for acutely ill patients. In a collaborative partnership between a health system and a skilled nursing facility (SNF), we developed and implemented an SNF COVID-19 unit to allow expedited hospital discharge of COVID-positive older adults who are clinically improving, and to provide an alternative to hospitalization for those who require SNF care but do not require or necessarily desire aggressive disease-modifying interventions.

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