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
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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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author 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.
author_facet Verdoorn, Brandon P.
Bartley, Mairead M.
Baumbach, Lori J.
Chandra, Anupam
McKenzie, Kyle M.
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Sanchez Pellecer, Daniel E.
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description 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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spelling pubmed-78673872021-02-09 Design and Implementation of a Skilled Nursing Facility COVID-19 Unit 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. J Am Med Dir Assoc Pragmatic Innovations in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine 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. AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. 2021-05 2021-02-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7867387/ /pubmed/33667426 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2021.02.001 Text en © 2021 AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Bartley, Mairead M.
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De la Garza, Maria Mendoza
Sanchez Pellecer, Daniel E.
Small, Tina C.
Hanson, Gregory J.
Design and Implementation of a Skilled Nursing Facility COVID-19 Unit
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