Institute Talk: A Conversation with Dan Reingold on Leading a Nursing Home in America’s Worst COVID-19 Hot Spot
Published: | 1:24 pm | Posted in: Covid-19 Public Policy
Dan Reingold is the chief executive of RiverSpring Health and a prominent national figure in the field of aging services. RiverSpring includes The Hebrew Home at Riverdale, a 750-bed nursing home in the Bronx, N.Y. The New York State Department of Health reported on March 30 that more than 1,000 residents of state nursing homes, […]
Harnessing Our Humanity — How Washington’s Health Care Workers Have Risen to the Pandemic Challenge
Published: | 1:23 pm | Posted in: Covid-19 Public Policy
In early March 2020, Ms. B., a woman in her mid-70s, was admitted from her nursing home to Seattle Harborview’s medical ICU with suspected Covid-19. When she rapidly decompensated, the ICU team resuscitated her as they would any patient: central line, fluids, pressors. But when it became clear that her death was imminent, providing supportive […]
I’m a doctor at Nebraska Medicine. Here’s what I’m telling my family about COVID-19.
Published: | 6:40 pm | Posted in: Covid-19 Public Policy
Dear Family, The COVID-19 pandemic will be a challenge to the USA unlike any we have experienced in our lifetime. For the last several weeks, I have been involved in multiple meetings each day where I get to hear the thoughts of experts in the field of pandemics, specifically about this pandemic, and what we […]
GOP-led states diverge on easing Medicaid access during COVID-19
Published: | 6:56 pm | Posted in: Covid-19 Public Policy
At least two Republican-led states want to temporarily ease their Medicaid waiver requirements and make it easier for residents to get and keep coverage under Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program during the coronavirus pandemic. On Tuesday, Arizona and Iowa sent requests to the CMS so they can make temporary changes to their Medicaid […]
American Hospital Capacity And Projected Need for COVID-19 Patient Care
Published: | 5:49 pm | Posted in: Covid-19 Public Policy
The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is rapidly spreading throughout the world. In the United States, the disease is expected to infect 20-60 percent of the population before the pandemic finishes its course. The recent experience in Italy has highlighted the critical need to ensure adequate […]