Fierce Health Technology April 5, 2020
Jeffrey Giullian knows how to get creative handling taxing circumstances.
As a nephrologist and longtime executive with DaVita Kidney Care, where part of his time had been spent serving on the emergency management team, Guillian was part of leading response plans to make sure thousands of patients in the path of natural disasters could still get care.
That included figuring out how a hospital in Beaumont, Texas — a city left without running water in the wake of Hurricane Harvey in August 2017 — could still administer dialysis without water to its local patients. Giullian led the assembly of a large interdisciplinary team including nurses, local dialysis leaders, biomedical experts, the hospital’s acute dialysis medical director and colleagues from...