Posted on 04/10/2012 7:15:32 AM PDT by Haiku Guy
There were no beeping machines or blinking lights or scurrying medical residents. A volunteer circulated among the patients like a flight attendant, making soothing conversation and offering reading glasses, Sudoku puzzles and hearing aids. Above them, an artificial sun shined through a skylight imprinted with a photographic rendering of a robin’s-egg-blue sky, puffy clouds and leafy trees.
Ms. Spielberger, who is in her 80s, was even getting into the spirit of the place, despite her unnerving condition. “It’s beautiful,” she said. “Everything here is wonderful.”
Yet this was an emergency room, one specifically designed for the elderly, part of a growing trend of hospitals’ trying to cater to the medical needs and sensibilities of aging baby boomers and their parents. Mount Sinai opened its geriatric emergency department, or geri-ed, two months ago, modeling it in part after one at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, N.J., which opened in 2009.
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Just the picture that came to my mind too.
Might start off nice, then more gov money needs to be diverted to other voters and ‘CLOSET’ becomes a more appropriate sign than “ER”.
As nurse that used to work in an ER, I love this idea and I would love to work in that department.....
That is exactly what I thought of! Elderly people maybe should not be segregated for Obamacare death panel treatment, separate from the rest of the population.
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