by Tim Darragh | The Morning Call
“When a team of health-care and social service workers in Allentown went looking for frequent visitors to emergency departments and hospitals, they quickly learned that many were dialysis patients.
“Ask those patients what’s most important for maintaining their lives, and they’ll, of course, say the dialysis treatment, when a machine cleans the bloodstream the way healthy kidneys would.
“Next on the list? For many, it’s transportation.”
“Alvin Bolster who is a ‘super utilizer’ of the healthcare system sits in his wheelchair inside his room at the Scottish Inn on Catasauqua Road in Hanover Township, Lehigh County. He has congestive heart failure and has been in and out of hospitals and hospice.” - EMILY PAINE / THE MORNING CALL
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