Strategies allow health leaders to plan for critical care surge during coronavirus pandemic

Healthcare Finance News April 6, 2020
Jeff Lagasse

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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