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Regional health care systems set a national pace in elder care

Excela Health Home Care nurse Holly Nicholson, works with her patient Bob Firment, 86, at his home in Unity Township, on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020. Nicholson has been making bi-weekly visits to check on Firment for nearly a year and a half.

Health systems like to tout new facilities and innovative treatment protocols, but some of their most significant advances in Southwestern Pennsylvania are happening quietly in medical schools, hospital rooms and homes where they are setting new standards in geriatric health care.


Source: The Tribune-Review