Articles Tagged With: COVID-19
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ID Doc: COVID-19 Can Be Controlled, Not Eradicated
Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH, is associate division chief of the HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at UCSF/San Francisco General Hospital. She has followed the COVID-19 pandemic closely. Hospital Employee Health sought Gandhi’s thoughts on the end of the Public Health Emergency.
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CDC Director Rochelle Walensky Exits
After conceding the CDC made mistakes and errors in the pandemic response — then launching an ambitious effort to reinvent the agency — director Rochelle Walensky, MD, has announced she will resign at the end of June 2023.
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Practice Alert Provides Critical Care Nurses Safety Tips for Prone Positioning
The technique that became well known during the COVID-19 pandemic remains a standard tactic for managing acute respiratory distress syndrome.
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
Immunocompromised Patients with Persistent COVID-19; Endemic Mycoses Are No Longer ‘-Demic’
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SHEA 2023: Pandemic Past Must Inform the Future
Part post-mortem, part vision quest, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2023 meeting largely was a look at the pandemic past and what beasts are yet to come.
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CDC Director Steps Down
After conceding that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made mistakes and errors in the pandemic response — then launched an ambitious effort to reinvent the agency — Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, has announced she will resign at the end of June 2023.
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Telemedicine Rule Changes Will Require Tighter Compliance
The Drug Enforcement Administration’s proposed telemedicine rules in response to the end of the Public Health Emergency could carry important implications for physicians and employers who use telemedicine to communicate with patients. In-patient visits will be required for certain controlled substances.
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Sentinel Events Increased in 2022, Fall Reports Up Sharply
The Joint Commission’s latest report on sentinel events shows a 19% increase from 2021 to 2022. Falls, which were the most common sentinel event, increased almost 27%.
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Researchers Use Advanced Technology to Detect MIS-C
Scientists want to improve diagnostic techniques for multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, which became a confounding problem during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Discharge Navigators Facilitate More Efficient Transitions
SNF beds were limited in one hospital’s region, even before the COVID-19 pandemic decimated nursing home staffing across the United States. ECU Health’s solution has been to assign a discharge navigator to work on obtaining authorizations for transferring patients to SNFs. Instead of waiting for the SNF to obtain authorization for a particular patient, the discharge navigator handles this task.