April 2021 - MiraMed Ajuba

No Place Like Home: Analyzing the Hospital at Home Model

April 28, 2021 Corpcomm Team

April 28, 2021 There is a movie comedy set in rural Louisiana where a woman goes into the hospital, and her son—wanting to make her as comfortable as possible—fills her oversized suite with the rustic reminders of home, including the family’s live-in mule. Though silly and over the top, the scene does point to the fact that patients have a hankering for home, would rather be at home, and may even have a better shot at defeating disease from home….

An Uncertain Sound: Contradictory Signals in the Battle Against COVID

April 21, 2021 Corpcomm Team

April 21, 2021 For millennia, trumpet-type instruments have played an important part in military history. In ancient times, a ram’s horn was used. In more recent centuries, the bugle was deployed. Such an instrument was used in the famed Charge of the Light Brigade. It was used throughout the Civil War and at Custer’s Last Stand. As strange as it might seem, the bugle was in use as late as the 1950s when masses of Chinese troops would follow it’s…