Advisory Board April 14, 2020
Daniel Simon, MD, President of University Hospital Cleveland Medical Center and UH Chief Clinical and Scientific Officer, recently spoke with Steven Berkow, Advisory Board’s VP of Provider Research, to discuss the Cleveland, Ohio-based system’s emergency planning for the new coronavirus epidemic and the steps needed to begin re-opening their health system to non-Covid patients.
Question: Thank you so much for joining me. I’d like to start off by getting a sense of where you are in the curve today. How many patients are sitting in your beds?
Dan Simon: At our peak, we had just over 110 Covid-19 cases in all of our beds. That’s now down into the seventies. We’re actually in very good shape on bed capacity at...