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COVID-19: Cleveland Clinic’s plans for safety, resource optimization, and redeployment
Manage episode 313049000 series 3234364
On March 27, 2020, Dr. Cara King (@drcaraking) hosts Beri Ridgeway, MD, (@beridgeway) Institute Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women’s Health, Cleveland Clinic.
They discuss:
- Ohio’s state of affairs regarding COVID-19
- Testing sites and tests completed to date
- Who can be tested for COVID-19, based on allocation of resources and underlying conditions
- The virtual approach to testing using telephones, FaceTime, and Google Duo
- Insurance coverage of virtual visits and charity care
- In-patient and out-patient visitation policy and hospital entrance checkpoints
- Wearing masks: current evidence-based approach
- COVID-19 modeling for Cleveland Clinic: contingency plans for worst-case scenarios
- Reducing nonessential operations
- COVID-19 preparations with many unknowns
- Elective surgeries: the slowdown of operations
- Supertracking GYN and early OB patients in a COVID-19 hot zone
- Redeployment strategy for now low-volume providers, including ObGyns
- Supporting staff emotionally
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This podcast is developed in collaboration with the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons
Email the show: podcasts@mdedge.com
Interact with us on Twitter: @MDedgeObGyn @drcaraking @beridgeway
For more MDedge Podcasts, go to mdedge.com/podcasts
38 episodes
Manage episode 313049000 series 3234364
On March 27, 2020, Dr. Cara King (@drcaraking) hosts Beri Ridgeway, MD, (@beridgeway) Institute Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women’s Health, Cleveland Clinic.
They discuss:
- Ohio’s state of affairs regarding COVID-19
- Testing sites and tests completed to date
- Who can be tested for COVID-19, based on allocation of resources and underlying conditions
- The virtual approach to testing using telephones, FaceTime, and Google Duo
- Insurance coverage of virtual visits and charity care
- In-patient and out-patient visitation policy and hospital entrance checkpoints
- Wearing masks: current evidence-based approach
- COVID-19 modeling for Cleveland Clinic: contingency plans for worst-case scenarios
- Reducing nonessential operations
- COVID-19 preparations with many unknowns
- Elective surgeries: the slowdown of operations
- Supertracking GYN and early OB patients in a COVID-19 hot zone
- Redeployment strategy for now low-volume providers, including ObGyns
- Supporting staff emotionally
* * *
This podcast is developed in collaboration with the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons
Email the show: podcasts@mdedge.com
Interact with us on Twitter: @MDedgeObGyn @drcaraking @beridgeway
For more MDedge Podcasts, go to mdedge.com/podcasts
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