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2. Alternate care site - Wikipedia

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   The Javits Center in New York City has been used as an ACS during the COVID-19 pandemic.. An alternate care site (ACS) is a medical treatment facility established in a non-traditional setting during a public-health crisis (or other event causing strain on local medical resources) as a means of providing additional capacity to deliver medical care within a given area.

3. Green House Project - Wikipedia

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   The Green House Project is an American national non-profit organization dedicated to creating alternative living environments to traditional nursing home care facilities. The project creates "caring homes for meaningful lives" for elders [1] where residents have private rooms and baths, can move freely through the home, build deep knowing ...

4. Group home - Wikipedia

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   Group facilities, which may involve over half of the allotted beds or more (80%) funded by Medicaid, might also be found under Residential Care Home, Residential Care Facility for the Elderly, or Assisted Living Facility. Alternative community options for these seniors are home health care, hospice care, specialized care (e.g., Alzheimer's ...

5. William H. Thomas (physician) - Wikipedia

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   Thomas and his wife developed the Eden Alternative [14] in the early 1990s as a philosophy to deinstitutionalize long-term care facilities by alleviating the "three plagues" of boredom, helplessness, and loneliness. The Eden Alternative put forward a critique of the status quo in long-term care and offered a creative way to “change the ...

6. Six months on from HSHS: a look back at how it all began - AOL

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   When we concluded we had no other option but to close, we did have discussion with local medical facilities, with the intention to ensure an efficient and effective transition of patient care, as ...

7. Triage - Wikipedia

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   Alternative care facilities are places that are set up for the care of large numbers of patients, or are places that could be so set up. Examples include schools, sports stadiums, and large camps that can be prepared and used for the care, feeding, and holding of large numbers of victims of a mass casualty or other type of event. [40]