COVID-19: Organizational Preparedness and Capacity Planning

AHA Board Chair Melinda Estes, M.D., hosts a series of Leadership Rounds 鈥 short conversations on a range of key issues Dr. Estes will have with hospital and health system leaders from across the country. The seventh in the series featured Dr. Estes talking with Jim Skogsbergh, President and CEO of鈥
Leadership in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic has had many faces 鈥 organizationally, in the community, at the bedside. During any crisis, leaders learn and adapt on their feet. But when there鈥檚 time to reflect, leaders learn even more about decisions that worked and those that didn鈥檛, and about鈥
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Join AHA Board Chair Melinda Estes, M.D., for the seventh in a series of Leadership Rounds 鈥 short conversations on a range of key issues Dr. Estes will have with hospital and health system leaders from across the country. Dr. Estes will joined by Jim Skogsbergh, President and CEO of Advocate鈥
Hospitals and health systems can expect sharp declines in commercially insured patients due to job losses in the pandemic economy, which likely will fuel a rise in Medicaid, exchange and uninsured patients. To a large extent, how effectively and aggressively provider organizations are able to鈥
Want to know how long it will take to clear the backlog of postponed surgical procedures due to ordered shutdowns during the pandemic? A newly revised AHA resource, 鈥淐OVID-19 Tools: Forecasting the Pandemic鈥檚 Spread and Planning for Recovery,鈥 includes links to two new online calculators to do just鈥
A recent report, 鈥淛ourney Toward the Next Normal,鈥 from the Providence Digital Innovation Group provides some answers and examines the role that technology and digital health will play in achieving this transformation.
As the U.S. continues its COVID-19 fight, the need for safe medical care unrelated to the pandemic is more important than ever.
Today, we continue to grapple not only with the COVID-19 pandemic, but also a dangerously polarized election, ongoing civil unrest in the face of untenable systemic racism 鈥 and now, 94 major wildfires that are devastating our West Coast neighbors, families and friends, as well as recent hurricanes鈥