Fierce Healthcare March 26, 2020
Among the many shortage concerns raised by the COVID-19 pandemic is whether there will be enough personnel to handle the surges — particularly as healthcare workers begin to get sick themselves.
As healthcare organizations across the U.S. scramble to keep ahead, they are going to have to rethink how to best use their workforces to maximize capacity, experts said in a virtual panel discussion hosted by the Alliance for Health Policy this week.
“If you look at the models of what a surge might look like — even with optimal mitigation strategies on the public health sector side — we’re going to need to be able to increase hospital capacity by two or three or more times to be...