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Nowhere To Go

Soon Ja Kim was admitted to Abington Memorial Hospital just before Christmas and spent all winter there in a private room. She was approved for discharge just four days after she arrived. But she had nowhere to go. She became Abington's problem.

Transport van driver John Sprowl (left) arrived to take Mrs. Kim home. The hospital also arranged for a Korean nurse to visit the next day and again the next week, and for a mobile lab to give her a blood test. They gave her two weeks of meds and prescriptions for refills, a new walker and two hospital blankets.
Transport van driver John Sprowl (left) arrived to take Mrs. Kim home. The hospital also arranged for a Korean nurse to visit the next day and again the next week, and for a mobile lab to give her a blood test. They gave her two weeks of meds and prescriptions for refills, a new walker and two hospital blankets.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
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