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...

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