How COVID-19 is changing hospitals’ population health strategies

Becker's Healthcare May 21, 2020
Kelly Gooch

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged hospitals to develop new approaches to managing patient populations. To effectively manage population health, organizations must balance keeping people in their communities healthy and caring for patients infected with the illness, all amid worsening care disparities and social determinants of health.

Here, hospital and health system leaders share with Becker’s Hospital Review how they maintain that balance and how their approach has changed.

Editor’s note: Responses were lightly edited for length and clarity.

Don Calcagno, senior vice president, population health and managed care at Advocate Aurora Health (Milwaukee and Downers Grove, Ill.)

At Advocate Aurora Health, we have been able to use, or in some cases adapt, certain population health programs to...

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