Healthcare ’ s Big Disruption : Healthcare Present
The COVID-19 Experience at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Dr . Steven J . Corwin , CEO of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital , commented on the many organizational changes and personnel redeployments that were necessary to handle the high volume of COVID-19 patients converging on their facilities in the hard-hit New York area ( NEJM / Catalyst ):
By the middle of April [ 2020 ], we had 2,500 Covid-19 confirmed cases with 750 on ventilators . The surge required redeployment of our clinicians to new areas and new atypical responsibilities . When we turned a pediatric ICU into space for Covid-positive adults , our pediatric physicians quickly crosstrained to take care of the adult patients . Bariatric surgeons and cardiologists became ICU attendings . Dermatology residents redeployed to our floor units and fever clinics . CRNAs worked as respiratory therapists , and nurses who typically staff our ORs cared for patients
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