Healthcare Finance News April 6, 2020
Creative thinking will be needed to carve out the necessary critical care capacity to address the surge in COVID-19 patients.
Hospitals can prepare for a surge of patients critically ill with COVID-19, but it will require hospital leaders, practitioners and regional officials to adopt drastic measures that challenge the standard way of providing care, according to a new RAND Corporation report.
The analysis summarizes a range of evidence-based and promising strategies for creating critical care capacity in the nation’s hospitals, and includes a simple online tool that allows decision-makers at all levels — hospitals, healthcare systems, states and regions — to estimate current critical care capacity and rapidly explore strategies for increasing it.
Because the healthcare system is already stretched...
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