Medscape November 11, 2021
Editor’s note from The Hospitalist: Hospitalists told us about process changes that their teams have implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Shyam Odeti, MD, SFHM
Ballad Health (Bristol, Tenn.) (Dr Odeti was a hospitalist at Ballad Health during the period he describes below. He is currently chief of hospital medicine at Carilion Clinic, Roanoke, Va.)
(Dr Odeti was a hospitalist at Ballad Health during the period he describes below. He is currently chief of hospital medicine at Carilion Clinic, Roanoke, Va.)
Ballad Health is a 21-hospital health system serving 1.2 million population in 21 counties of rural Appalachia (northeast Tennessee, southwest Virginia, western North Carolina, and Kentucky). We saw a significant spike in COVID-19 numbers beginning in October 2020. We were...