The patients that plan ahead, it seems, are most often the ones who recover more quickly. Continue Reading A Nurse’s Perspective on Rehab Care—Planning is Key
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Checklist for Considering Nursing Facilities
As a nurse, my best advice to you is to plan ahead and visit some of your local nursing homes so you can see firsthand how they operate. Call to schedule a tour and, while you are there, look for the following… Continue Reading Checklist for Considering Nursing Facilities
Do you know where your patients go?
In this post, Dr. Scott Cline, neurologist, reviews his experience as a specialist attending patients in rehabilitation centers after hospitalization. Continue Reading Do you know where your patients go?
Prevention is the Best Medicine
Too often as hospitalists (physicians devoted to inpatient hospital care), we would treat patients in the hospital, discharge them to a skilled nursing facility for continuing care, only to see them return to the hospital again in a few days or weeks with complications. Continue Reading Prevention is the Best Medicine