COVID-19: Organizational Preparedness and Capacity Planning

Leaders need to think strategically about the pandemic’s impact on health care in the near and long term and plan for a future defined by resilience and innovation while maintaining an unwavering commitment to high-quality care. Futurescan 2021-2016: Health Care Trends and Implications offers key…
Hospitals and health systems have demonstrated innovative leadership in acute care response throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The challenge going forward will be to continue the energy and enthusiasm of distributed, team-based, rapid problem-solving and use it to address other problems that…
Sarah Krevans, president and CEO of Sutter Health, joined AHA Board Chair Melinda Estes, M.D., yesterday to discuss how hospitals can move from relief, recovery, and rebuilding to reimagining and innovation.
Like everything else this year, Thanksgiving will be different. We hope that everyone will heed the recent letter to the American people from the AHA, AMA, and ANA … which lays out very strong reasons for not traveling this year, but celebrating instead within our immediate households. Of course we…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today released guidance for celebrating Thanksgiving and slowing the spread of COVID-19 during holiday gatherings.
Join AHA Board Chair Melinda Estes, M.D., for the tenth in a series of Leadership Rounds — 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 Claire Zangerle, MSN, MBA, RN, Chief Nurse Executive…
Please join AHA Board Chair Melinda Estes, M.D., for the ninth in a series of Leadership Rounds — short conversations on a range of key issues Dr. Estes will have with hospital and health system leaders from across the country. Dr. Estes is joined by Sarah Krevans, President and Chief Executive…
At Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Washington, we were involved very early in this pandemic. We are still caring for the majority of patients with the coronavirus in our community, and we learn more every day. Looking back on many months of dealing with COVID-19, here are some…
Join us to hear University of Chicago Medicine’s perspective from its medical laboratory as it forged and strengthened a network of support within its health system and across the community it served. Kathleen G. Beavis, MD, FCAP, medical director of University of Chicago Medicine’s microbiology…
A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examines the advantages, limitations and status of certain COVID-19 diagnostic tests, including reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction tests, point-of-care tests, and next generation sequencing tests.