DOTmed June 10, 2020
Virtually every U.S. healthcare organization is struggling with a flood of patients with COVID-19. Clinicians are getting the virus, some have died, and patients are suffering. While most facilities have lived through and handled a variety of crises, this one is unusual.
“What makes this situation different than other [crises] in the past is the wholesale decrease in manufacturing production and export levels coupled together with increased global demand, which has led to severe shortages of PPE, including N95, surgical, ear loop, and face shield masks, gowns, gloves and pharmaceutical supplies,” said Michael Schiller, CMRP, senior director, American Hospital Association and Association for Health Care Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM). “AHRMM is actively working with health care leaders, associations, suppliers,...
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