Opinion: Our hospital’s community management strategy for Covid-19 works. Yours can, too
The Covid-19 pandemic is overwhelming hospital and emergency response systems in the U.S., much as it did in Italy. Even with current efforts to increase the number of inpatient beds, some communities will fall short of having enough beds to manage all of the patients with Covid-19. The community-based approach that our hospital has implemented can help.
Perhaps in even greater shortage is personal protective equipment, which is used at high rates in inpatient management — in our experience, 25 to 50 gowns per patient per hospital day.
