Advisory Board April 9, 2020
WellSpan Health is an integrated care system with eight hospitals, 200 care locations and 1,600 employed physicians and advanced practice clinicians serving central Pennsylvania and northern Maryland beginning to see the effects of the greater New York City area Covid-19 epicenter spreading down the East Coast and into eastern Pennsylvania. WellSpan Health President and CEO Roxanna Gapstur, Ph.D., R.N., recently spoke with Steven Berkow, VP of Provider Research at Advisory Board, to discuss how WellSpan is amplifying its system-wide capabilities, and set up a centralized command structure to prepare for the projected surge in Covid-19 cases.
Question: Roxanna, thank you for taking the time to speak with me. To start off, can you tell me where you’re at in the...