Background UW Medicine was one of the first health systems to encounter and treat COVID-
19 patients in the United States, starting in late February 2020. Objective Here we describe …

Introduction: Recent disasters emphasize the need for disaster risk mitigation in the health
sector. A lack of standardized tools to assess hospital disaster preparedness hinders the …

Hospitalists are well poised to serve in key leadership roles and in frontline care in particular
when facing a pandemic such as the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection. Much of the …

Purpose Healthcare organizations worldwide were badly hit by the “surprise” of the
pandemic. Hospitals in particular are trying hard to manage problems it caused, searching …

Disaster management is one of the most important issues in service organizations,
especially in healthcare sector. Due to the occurrences of natural or human-made incidents …

Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic spread by the single‐
stranded RNA severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) belongs to …

Objective Large health systems responding to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic face a broad range of challenges; we describe 14 examples of innovative and …

Background During the initial wave of COVID-19 hospitalizations, care delivery and
workforce adaptations were rapidly implemented. In response to subsequent surges of …

Background Medical centers across the country have had to rapidly adapt clinician staffing
strategies to accommodate large influxes of patients with the coronavirus disease 2019 …

Background Hospital systems have rapidly adapted to manage the influx of patients with
COVID-19 and hospitalists, specialists in inpatient care, have been at the forefront of this …