Another may spend her last week being moved from home to hospital to nursing home and back to the hospital.
Conway spent the next decade working on three kinds of silicone catheters for home and hospital use.
He returned home for hospital treatment after being wounded in the battle of the Somme in 1916 but recovered sufficiently to qualify again for service overseas.
He was sent home from hospital with some painkillers after X-rays revealed bruised ribs, but bled to death less than 24 hours later from a ruptured spleen.
In surveys, the majority of people say they would prefer to die in their own home while receiving hospice care than in a nursing home or hospital.
When one older woman was healthy enough to go home, the hospital prevented her from leaving until she paid her bill, which meant selling her home.
Nana and her mother came home from the hospital to find the children waiting on the back steps.
Ms Stephens said she grew increasingly frustrated with unattractive assistive technology that made her home resemble a hospital.
Mike Basara comes to the Austin store almost every day on the way home from his hospital maintenance job.
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The day I brought my son home from the hospital this week I received a call from Daily Candy.
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It compared the safety of 65, 000 "low risk" births throughout England planned in different settings - at home, in hospital and at midwife-led units.
The day I brought my son home from the hospital, I also won the Daily Candy Startup Competition for my business, Taste Savant.
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Thomson says bringing a used baby blanket home from the hospital prior to the baby's arrival can help your pet become accustomed to the scent.
He said that the UK health authorities should prepare to treat patients at home rather than hospital in order to limit the spread of the infection.
"We said that we'd investigate every death that occurred in a nursing home or a hospital at this time so we'll have a true overall picture of what happened, " Foti said.
Krediet said when they bought their daughter home from the hospital, they let the dogs sniff her feet and get to know her, making sure never to leave them with her unsupervised.
Those commemorated in the UK died at home or in hospital from their wounds or disease, in training accidents and air raids, or were killed at sea and their bodies washed ashore.
She said the shift away from home births to hospital births over the last 50 years had resulted in "dehumanisation" and lack of personal care and midwife-led units could go someway to rectifying this.
While childbirth, within limits, varies relatively little around the world at home or in hospital, painful or less painful, safe or life-threatening nothing identifies people, nor divides them, in quite the same way as the complex rituals that different societies have evolved to dispatch their dead.
Patients can receive treatment at home rather than in a more expensive institutional setting, like a hospital or nursing home.
The film chronicles her transformation, following her from her village to the hospital and home again.
One doctor at Havana's leading hospital returned home to find burglars loading her few possessions into a car.
Dr Mark Lomax, co-founder of MediHome, said given the choice, most people preferred to be at home rather than in hospital.
To ensure that clients like Mrs Taylor do not have to queue at the bureau Mrs Shine and her colleagues visit them at home or even in hospital.
The father, Bill Richard, 42, returned home briefly from the hospital to get clothing, and a neighbor said he was pale, almost dazed, and too grief-stricken to talk.
In Hawaii, there have been legal moves in recent weeks to give parents the right to take home a placenta from hospital - because of a native Hawaiian belief that the placenta is part of the child.
In order to keep him connected to his classroom and his schoolmates, Lombardi has given Ahmed and his teacher, Lynda Decker Gallagher, laptop computers, so Ahmed can 'go' to school while he's recovering, either at home or in the hospital.
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The Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Clydebank is home to regional and national heart and lung services, a major centre for orthopaedics and is also the flagship hospital for reducing waiting times in key elective specialties.
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On Wednesday evening, he fell ill at his Santaquin, Utah, home, according to a hospital statement.
The horror stories of patients being sent home with six-figure hospital bills would be over.
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