TY - JOUR
T1 - Managing a Specialty Service during the COVID-19 Crisis
T2 - Lessons from a New York City Health System
AU - Ammar, Adam
AU - Stock, Ariel D.
AU - Holland, Ryan
AU - Gelfand, Yaroslav
AU - Altschul, David
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright by the Association of American Medical Colleges.
PY - 2020/10/1
Y1 - 2020/10/1
N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic has stretched health care resources to a point of crisis throughout the world. To answer the call for care, health care workers in a diverse range of specialties are being retasked to care for patients with COVID-19. Consequently, specialty services have had to adapt to decreased staff available for coverage coupled with a need to remain available for specialty-specific emergencies, which now require a dynamic definition. In this Invited Commentary, the authors describe their experiences and share lessons learned regarding triage of patients, staff safety, workforce management, and the psychological impact as they have adapted to a new reality in the Department of Neurosurgery at Montefiore Medical Center, a COVID-19 hot spot in New York City.
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic has stretched health care resources to a point of crisis throughout the world. To answer the call for care, health care workers in a diverse range of specialties are being retasked to care for patients with COVID-19. Consequently, specialty services have had to adapt to decreased staff available for coverage coupled with a need to remain available for specialty-specific emergencies, which now require a dynamic definition. In this Invited Commentary, the authors describe their experiences and share lessons learned regarding triage of patients, staff safety, workforce management, and the psychological impact as they have adapted to a new reality in the Department of Neurosurgery at Montefiore Medical Center, a COVID-19 hot spot in New York City.
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U2 - 10.1097/ACM.0000000000003440
DO - 10.1097/ACM.0000000000003440
M3 - Review article
C2 - 32304386
AN - SCOPUS:85083865675
SN - 1040-2446
VL - 95
SP - 1495
EP - 1498
JO - Academic Medicine
JF - Academic Medicine
IS - 10
ER -