Healthcare Finance News August 17, 2020
The joint statement includes recommendations on community partnerships, PPE and distancing protocols and prioritizing procedures.
The recent resurgence of COVID-19 has many states near or at bed and intensive care unit capacity, and healthcare facilities’ ability to meet the ongoing needs of surgical patients may be stressed by new influxes of coronavirus patients admitted to healthcare facilities.
To ensure healthcare organizations, physicians and nurses remain prepared to meet these demands to care for patients who undergo recommended essential operations, the American College of Surgeons, American Society of Anesthesiologists, Association of periOperative Registered Nurses and American Hospital Association have developed a roadmap for maintaining essential surgery during the pandemic.
The joint statement provides a list of principles and considerations to guide...
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