Helping Hospitals Discover the Person Within the Patient

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June 10, 2019

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Helping Hospitals Discover the Person Within the Patient

"Bob Hall was recovering from yet another surgery when the volunteer first walked into his hospital room. It was March 2014, and unfortunately Hall had been in and out of the hospital quite a bit. It had been a rocky recovery since his lung transplant, three months earlier, at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital in Madison, WI. But the volunteer wasn't there to check on his lungs or breathing. Instead she asked Hall if we wanted to tell his life story." This story from NPR shares more. { read more }