No Place Like the Hospital

No place like the hospital.

The gold standard for end-of-life care is home hospice. A case is presented in which a patient dying of irreversible small bowel obstruction from metastatic cancer insisted on remaining in the acute care hospital for care when alternative sites of care, including a skilled nursing facility and residential hospice, were available to her and covered by her health insurance plan. The ethical issue...

No place like HOME.

Chimpanzee Behavior: There's No Place like Home

During times of crisis, humans often seek the comforts of home. New observations indicate that, during periods of food shortage, male chimpanzees behave in similar fashion by returning to the areas they occupied with their mothers in youth.

There's no place like home for the holidays.

There’s No Place Like Home: Coordinating Care for Veterans

In VA, care coordination involves the use of telehealth, disease management, and health informatics technologies to enhance and extend care and case management activities. VA is initially focusing its care coordination effort on the home and using home-telehealth technologies. We describe this range of activities as care coordination/home telehealth (CCHT). We are finding these technologies par...