Advisory Board March 23, 2020
On March 14th, Michael Wagner, Chief Physician Officer at Wellforce, published an article urging health systems to proactively cancel elective surgeries amid the new coronavirus outbreak, “COVID-19: Should hospitals proactively cancel cases before they see an influx of COVID-19 patients?” Wellforce is a multi-hospital health system, including Tufts Medical Center, which serves Eastern Massachusetts. Wagner recently spoke with Steven Berkow, Advisory Board Vice President of Provider Research, about how Wellforce is re-purposing capacity created by surgery cancellations and other health system strategies to meet the demands of COVID-19.
Question: Michael, thank you for taking my call with all the pressures on your time. You’ve been out in front on the cancellation of elective surgeries to free up capacity. Can you...
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