AS THE CORONAVIRUS pandemic swept across the U.S. this spring, a disturbing pattern emerged: African Americans were getting infected, and dying, at disproportionately high rates. And Chicago – where blacks make up 30% of the population but are dying from COVID-19 at two to three...
There’s an interesting dynamic that happens when an organization faces a crisis. The compounding factors of stress, fear, and exhaustion can cut right to the core, and individuals are separated into two groups: naysayers and believers. And it’s the believers — the ones who focus...
Robert Martinez couldn’t take a deep breath on March 26. The next morning, he was taken to the hospital and tested positive for COVID-19. He spent the next several weeks in critical care in the intensive care unit at HCA Houston Hospital in Tomball. Martinez,...
Efforts to slow the spread of Covid-19 in the U.S have been stymied by the lack of an effective national surveillance system that can track the emergence of suspected and confirmed new cases in real-time. This is in part because important patient data is trapped...
In this episode of Fireside Chat, we sit down with Terry Shaw, President and CEO, AdventHealth to talk about how consolidation among provider health systems will play out over the next three years, what steps CMS should take to make care more efficient and consumer-focused,...
This episode features Jhaymee Tynan, Assistant Vice President of Integration at Atrium Health. Here, she discusses what she sees with racism currently in America, ways to reduce micro and macro aggressions, and more....
As the West Coast COVID-19 caseload eased, Dr. Compton-Phillips led a virtual offsite for more than 200 leaders from across the Providence system. Team members envisioned a path forward from the immediate response phase through recovery and into a future where Providence can grow toward...
For weeks doctors and nurses around the country had no real handbook for how to treat the Covid patients that started showing up in their emergency rooms. They had some insight from clinicians in Italy and China and experience treating patients with respiratory ailments, but...
88% of those hospitalized finished course of treatment and were discharged to continue recuperation....
Last weekend. Susan Bailey, MD, an allergist and immunologist from Forth Worth, Texas, was sworn in as the 175th President of the American Medical Association (AMA) at its virtual House of Delegates meeting. In her acceptance remarks, she vowed to advocate for protection of the...
