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Partnering to Increase Veteran Safety: Fall Prevention and Nursing Unit Design

Topic: Patient Safety
Date: 10/25/2021

Ron Shorr, MD, MS Gary Fischer
Speaker(s): (from left to right) Ron Shorr, MD, MS; Gary Fischer

HSR&D investigator and director of the North Florida/South Georgia Geriatrics Research, Education, and Clinical Center Ron Shorr, MD, MS, and healthcare architect Gary Fischer with VA’s Construction and Facilities Unit, discuss the value of partnered research within the context of Dr. Shorr’s HSR&D-funded project, Nursing Unit Design and Hospital Falls.

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