Emergency Room Program for Older Adults Cuts Hospitalizations by 33 Percent

Roughly one third of all older patients age 65 and older visiting emergency departments nationwide are admitted to the hospital. But an emergency department program focused on geriatric transitional care has reduced the risk of unnecessary admission of older patients at Northwestern Medicine by 33 percent, according to a new study from Northwestern University, Mount Sinai Medical Center and St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center. ____
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