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

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We were already an admitting service for inpatient hospice patients, but that’s only a couple a week. Not one elderly person died on a ventilator. Jim: We are really in the same situation that we were in March of 2020, as far as elders being warehoused in nursing homes, nursing homes being understaffed.