COVID-19: Protecting Health Care Workers
A nurse, a physician and a public health professor with experience in disaster response recommend health care organizations implement three strategies to enhance organizational cohesion and reduce adverse effects on employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hospitals, associations, academic institutions and commercial enterprises are currently offering a wide range of free courses and webinars to help clinicians refresh or gain skills needed to treat patients with COVID-19. Harvard University and edX announced they are launching a course on ventilator…
Writing in Modern Healthcare, leaders at Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health argued “protecting staff from harm as a first principle” is essential as health systems battle the COVID-19 pandemic.
Today the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will host the latest in a series of calls with physicians and clinical leaders sharing their experiences, best practices, strategies and insights related to COVID-19. Participants may join the call at 12:30 p.m. ET by dialing 877-251-0301…
Lodging, transportation and other hospitality businesses are offering discounts to hospital and health system employees responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ochsner Health, a nonprofit healthcare system based in New Orleans, a U.S. epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, received its first coronavirus patient on March 9.