Webinars address behavioral health, ambulatory care during pandemic

During an webinar hosted April 22 by the American Hospital Association, senior leaders from Baltimore’s Sheppard Pratt Health System discussed ways to re-engineer care processes and protocols and to perform a virtual assessment designed to decrease the number of psychiatric patients in the emergency department during the COVID-19 surge. Also this week, presenters from the Joint Commission provided an overview of COVID-19’s clinical presentation along with specific suggestions for reducing its transmission in ambulatory care settings. Both webinars are archived on the organizations’ websites.