Preparing for the COVID-19 Pandemic From a Community Hospital Perspective: Team of Teams Approach

This report describes one community hospital emergency department’s (ED's) experience in preparing for the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on both our community and our ED, several proposals were reviewed. Strategies were employed to ensure the protection of E...

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Autores principales: Kwok, Matthew Mo Kin, Chan, Eliza, Copeland, Joseph, Juneau, Eric, Smith, Andrew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
Materias:
Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7725201/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33312788
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11387
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description This report describes one community hospital emergency department’s (ED's) experience in preparing for the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on both our community and our ED, several proposals were reviewed. Strategies were employed to ensure the protection of ED staff and to lessen the impact of potential patient volume surges. A plan was agreed upon using the “team of teams” approach. Using this method, we achieved our goal of having a plan in place to manage the impact of the pandemic and safely care for our patients.
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spelling pubmed-77252012020-12-10 Preparing for the COVID-19 Pandemic From a Community Hospital Perspective: Team of Teams Approach Kwok, Matthew Mo Kin Chan, Eliza Copeland, Joseph Juneau, Eric Smith, Andrew Cureus Emergency Medicine This report describes one community hospital emergency department’s (ED's) experience in preparing for the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on both our community and our ED, several proposals were reviewed. Strategies were employed to ensure the protection of ED staff and to lessen the impact of potential patient volume surges. A plan was agreed upon using the “team of teams” approach. Using this method, we achieved our goal of having a plan in place to manage the impact of the pandemic and safely care for our patients. Cureus 2020-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7725201/ /pubmed/33312788 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11387 Text en Copyright © 2020, Kwok et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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