Managing When COVID-19 Cases Exceed Resources: Lessons From NYC
Jonathan Sackner-Bernstein, MD
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Jonathan Sackner-Bernstein, MD
Transforming Parkinson’s Disease Treatment. Track Record as Innovator. Experience at FDA and DARPA. "Worthy 100" (2023).
With Florida, Arizona and California (amongst other states) COVID-19 outbreaks near, at or exceeding ICU capacity, perhaps leaders of those hospitals can do what their politicians seem incapable of doing - showing leadership.
The NYC Health+Hospitals system published a roadmap for how to use inter-facility transfers to distribute the clinical load. Hospital systems can work together to replicate the NYC Health+Hospital approach.
Read about this working system here: https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20200710.163676/full/
This is a great example of how health systems can manage in a crisis, and of course, it doesn't hurt to see my daughter as one of the authors!