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P22: The Home Program: Ten Years Of Medical Home Experience In Patients With Developmental Disabilities, Will Lehmann, D Weedon, J Dorius, R Bucciere Dec 2010

P22: The Home Program: Ten Years Of Medical Home Experience In Patients With Developmental Disabilities, Will Lehmann, D Weedon, J Dorius, R Bucciere

Will Lehmann, MD

The HOME Program is a Utah Medicaid waiver program for patients with developmental disabilities. Our mission is to optimize the quality of life of the people we serve by providing excellent, compassionate, and integrated health services throughout the lifespan. Our care model of co-location of medical and mental health services under one roof was initiated in 2000, and the program has gone from a handful of patients at that time to a current panel of almost 800 people with a growing wait list. We would like to share with participants our unique care model, as well as our perceived successes …

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Thirty-Year Trends (1975-2005) In The Magnitude And Hospital Death Rates Associated With Complete Heart Block In Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Population-Based Perspective, Hoa Nguyen, Darleen Lessard, Frederick Spencer, Jorge Yarzebski, Juan Zevallos, Joel Gore, Robert Goldberg Jul 2010

Thirty-Year Trends (1975-2005) In The Magnitude And Hospital Death Rates Associated With Complete Heart Block In Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Population-Based Perspective, Hoa Nguyen, Darleen Lessard, Frederick Spencer, Jorge Yarzebski, Juan Zevallos, Joel Gore, Robert Goldberg

Jorge L. Yarzebski

BACKGROUND: The contemporary magnitude and prognostic implications of complete heart block (CHB) in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are unknown. As part of a community-based study of patients hospitalized with AMI in the Worcester, MA, metropolitan area, changes over time in the incidence rates of CHB complicating AMI and the prognostic impact of CHB on short-term survival were examined.

METHODS: The study population consisted of 13,663 residents of the Worcester metropolitan area who were hospitalized with AMI at all greater Worcester medical centers during 15 annual periods between 1975 and 2005.

RESULTS: The average age of the hospitalized study …

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