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    Hospitalization at home? Some Illinois hospitals are giving it a try

    Struggling to breathe, Patty Cowick knew she had to head to the emergency room at Blessing Hospital in Quincy, Illinois, in May. But she dreaded the discomfort and confinement of staying in the hospital. Cowick, 60, has congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and had been hospitalized before. “I said can’t you do something and let me go home?” she said. “They ...
    by Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune Jun 09, 2022 5 minutes
    Diana Calleros talks to hospital personnel for her niece, at her home in Chicago, Friday, June 3, 2022.

    Struggling to breathe, Patty Cowick knew she had to head to the emergency room at Blessing Hospital in Quincy, Illinois, in May.

    But she dreaded the discomfort and confinement of staying in the hospital. Cowick, 60, has congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and had been hospitalized before.

    “I said can’t you do something and let me go home?” she said. “They came back a while later and said we have a program that might fit for you.”

    They told her she could receive hospital care at home, with daily visits from nurses and virtual check-ins with a doctor. Cowick spent about three days receiving hospital care at her home in rural Kellerville, resting in her rose-colored recliner and watching traffic go by from her front porch.

    “I can’t stand to be shut up in a

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