Home Oncology Medical Extension: A New Home Treatment Program

A new home for Alpert Medical School.

On April 26, 2010, a “groundbreaking” ceremony celebrated the start of construction that will culminate in the opening of a new Alpert Medical School building in August 2011. This project will represent the first dedicated space for Brown’s medical school since its founding thirty-five years ago. The facility is being constructed within an existing building at 222 Richmond Street in Providence’...

Oncology patient-centered medical home and accountable cancer care

Correspondence to: John D. Sprandio, MD, Consultants in Medical Oncology and Hematology, PC, 2100 Keystone Avenue, Suite 502, MOB, Drexel Hill, PA 19026; telephone: 610622-3818; fax: 610-622-6407; e-mail: jsprandio @cmoh.org. M edical oncologists are playing an ever-expanding role in the de livery of cancer care. The current and future challenges they face in their efforts to deliver effective,...

Vacuum Assisted Closure (VAC) at Home: Developing a New Concept

BACKGROUND The vacuum assisted closure (VAC) therapy has revolutionized the modern wound care. We developed a new concept of ‘VAC at home’ in order to decrease the hospital cost. METHODS The study was conducted in a private hospital from January 2009 to December 2010. Only those patients were included among whom the wounds were not complicated by concomitant injury and the patients were othe...

Home Medical Device for Tinnitus Treatment

Hospitalist Home Visit Program

Postdischarge home visits may allow for early identification of medical complications after hospital discharge. The hospitalist home visit program (HHVP) was started with the intention of facilitating communication between primary care providers and hospitalists and reducing hospital utilization postdischarge by earlier identification of nonadherence to discharge treatment recommendations. Duri...