Hospitals Offer New Twists on Services, With the Older Patient in Mind

Hospitals Offer New Twists on Services, With the Older Patient in Mind From the emergency department to the operating room, hospitals are taking a fresh approach to treating an aging population.

January 15, 2016 Geri Aston 0 Comments It’s not often that new hospital programs are envisioned by a physician’s mom, but it happened in the geriatric emergency department at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, N.J.

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When Chairman of Emergency Medicine Mark S. Rosenberg’s mother experienced surgical complications and suffered kidney failure in 2002 and 2003, she often had to visit the emergency department near her home in South Florida’s Broward County. “She was so afraid to be in the ED because of the gang-violence patients and the screaming and people in pain,” says Rosenberg, a doctor of osteopathic medicine. “She would sometimes even lie to [ED staff] just to get out of there. She said to me, ‘Why don’t we build an emergency department that’s designed for seniors, just like we do for kids?’”

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