CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) – About a quarter of the patients who come through the University of Virginia’s Emergency Department each day are 65 years or older, and staff are working to make the experience more manageable.
Dina Hood, a clinical nurse specialist at UVA’s Emergency Department, said the share of older patients is increasing.
“That’s a large population of geriatric patients that are coming into our ED, and that’s growing on an annual basis,” Hood said…