Hospitals aren't known for making house calls. Once patients get their discharge papers, they take their chances with a family doctor or staffers at a clinic who may or may not know what happened inside the hospital's walls. So Margaret Bennett's experience is pretty rare. Bennett, 84, who had a stroke 11 years ago and colon cancer in 2007, recently spent two weeks at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx because of a blood clot in her leg. In many places, such a frail and elderly patient might be hospitalized for weeks or even months, but Bennett's doctor now comes to her.
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/best-hospitals/articles/2010/07/26/the-hospital-your-care-coordinator.html
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