Case Presentation: A 74‐year‐old woman with a medical history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), hypertension, and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation presented to the preoperative clinic for optimization prior to her right hip replacement surgery. She had excellent functional capacity; however, this was limited lately because of increased hip pain. She denied any active cardiac symptoms […]

Background: Patients with complex medical problems are at high risk of readmission when transitioning from the hospital to home, especially when they reside in rural areas (as is the case within our VA Health Care System (HCS)). Innovative solutions are needed to improve access to post hospitalization follow up within our facility. We hypothesized that […]