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E011: Progress Is a Four-Letter Word
I thought I finally understood what happened after a hospital stay: you went home, or you went to rehab.
Then someone introduced me to an acute care hospital—a type of hospital I'd never even heard of.
So what exactly is an acute care hospital? How is it different from a regular hospital or rehabilitation facility? Who takes care of patients there? And why would an aging parent need one?
In this episode, I take you inside the next chapter of my mom's recovery after being hit by a car and surviving surgeries, AFib, aspiration pneumonia, a ventilator, and a long hospital stay.
But this chapter…
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