some random old dude breaking his foot and needing PT and ortho care had little business being in the hospital for more than 12 hours aside from "the hospital stops making fucking money the second they discharge him."
I thought the same thing when I read it, unless the injury was so bad that he needed surgery to put a rod or pin in or something.
Even if it did! Do the surgery, stabilize, send home with an order for PT and wound care to start within 24 hours. Need to convalesce for three days to stabilize? Send to the ortho-facility down the road that is IN NO WAY overrun by Covid cases. (Oh, but wait, I bet the hospital group doesn't own that.) None of this requires the dude being in the hospital "for a week" like the lady says they were planning unless his health was being wildly misrepresented in the tweets.
We really need to relook at who informs the patients of options in our system of what they can do around their own care and the outcomes of such other than hospital case managers and discharge planners who are super incentivized to keep them in a facility because if they don't, the lights go off. Again, I'm super biased both professionally and personally (my wife got MRSA during surgery and basically lost 6 months of her life) but folks should REALLY read up on this.
