In February 2022, Larry Katz was among the first JGH patients to participate in the Hospital@Home program. While at home with his wife, Carol Adams, he used a smartphone to connect to his hospital care team through voice calls or video meetings. (Click on this or any photo to enlarge it.)
90th anniversaryOctober 2024

90th anniversary flashback: Hospital@Home transforms the home into a virtual ward

Henry Mietkiewicz — September 30, 2024
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Launched in 2022, Hospital@Home enables qualified patients to finish recovering at home, while being monitored via digital technology.

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During the early years of Dr. Charles Gomberg’s career at the JGH in the 1950s and ’60s, when telephone calls came into the hospital, switchboard operators manually routed them to their destinations.
85th Anniversary - ArchivesMarch 2019

From our archives: “Hello, I’d like to place a call to a world that no longer exists”

Henry Mietkiewicz — March 6, 2019
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During the 20th century, when digital telecommunication was still undreamt-of, the JGH relied on platoons of patient, quick-thinking switchboard operators to ensure that thousands of daily phone calls were properly routed.

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