In the News

• Adventist HealthCare Fort Washington Medical Center First Hospital to Unveil STAAT Mod™ – New Prefabricated ICU Inpatient Wing to Care for COVID-19 and Critical Patients (Businesswire)

• Newly Released Data Show Heavy Virus Toll at Nursing Homes (USNews)

• State-by-state breakdown of adjusted hospital expenses per inpatient day for 2018 (Beckers)

• Related Kaiser Health Facts: Hospital Adjusted Expenses per Inpatient Day by Ownership (KFF)

• Opinion: NM Health care bill would expand coverage but may not save as much money (SantaFeNewMexican)

• Kaiser Permanente Releases COVID-19 Playbook to Help Businesses Plan for the Future (PRNewsWire)

• Download PDF at: Planning For The Next Normal At Work (Kaiser)

• Report looks to improve quality measures for medical care of homebound older adults (MedExpress)

• CIDRAP - Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy Univeristy of Minnesota Viewpoint Series on Covid:

• Part 1: The future of the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned from pandemic influenza (University of Minnesota, CIDRAP)
• Part 2:  Effective COVID-19 Crisis Communication (University of Minnesota, CIDRAP)
• Part 3: Smart Testing for COVID-19 Virus and Antibodies (University of Minnesota, CIDRAP)

• Philly Hospital Fights Bid To Quash Subpoena In Merger Case (Law360)

• Covid-19 is damaging the health care system, but it's devastating primary care (Buffalo News)

• Hospital Margins Plummeted 174% in April (HealthLeaders)

• Infection Control Deficiencies Were Widespread and Persistent in Nursing Homes Prior to COVID-19 Pandemic

• (GAO) Full Report (PDF)

• As States Consider Allowing Nursing Home Visitors, CMS Urges ‘Extreme Caution' (AARP)

• SCAI issues position statement on the performance of percutaneous coronary intervention in ambulatory surgical centers (Eureka!)

•   SCAI Position Statement (PDF)

• Telehealth use jumps at inpatient settings (HealthDive)

• State demands more detail in plan to close inpatient beds at Providence Behavioral Health Hospital in Holyoke (MassLive)

• DPH finds psychiatric beds at Providence Behavioral Health Hospital ‘necessary’ (Daily Hampshire Gazette)

• Major Boston hospital finds dramatic drop in stroke, heart attack, and cancer patients during coronavirus pandemic (Boston Globe)

• Heart Attack Cases at ERs Fall by Half – Are COVID Fears to Blame? (USNews/HealthDay)

• FAIR Health Analysis: COVID-19 Hits Health System Revenues Harder in Northeast (AJMC)

• A New Report Confirms Significant Benefits in Patient Reported Outcomes at One Year Following the Non-Surgical Zephyr Valve Procedure for COPD/Emphysema (Businesswire)

• ATS Report Effect of Zephyr Endobronchial Valves on Dyspnea, Activity Levels and Quality of Life at One Year(ATS Journals)

• Honing Chemo Use in Small Breast Tumors (Medpage)

• Opinion: The Coronavirus Is Killing Too Many Nursing Home Residents (NYT)

• AHIP Releases COVID-19 Priorities as States Consider Re-Opening (HealthPayer)

• Artificial Intelligence Can Track Aneurysm, Boost Patient Care (HealthIT)

• The COVID-19 Pandemic And Rural Hospitals—Adding Insult To Injury (HealthAffairs)

• Related: 2020 Rural Hospital Sustainability Index (Guidehouse)

• State Based Data

• Balancing health privacy, health information exchange, and research in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic (JAMIA)

• Manual processes and a lack of alignment with consumer expectations may be creating patient collections delays for a majority of providers, a new survey suggests (RevCycle)

• Survey: Physician Practice Patterns Changing As A Result Of COVID-19 (PRNewswire)

• Predictive Analytics Identifies Patients at Risk of Pancreatic Cancer (HealthIT)

• EHR Tools Flag High-Risk Patients, Detect Undiagnosed Dementia (EHRIntel)

• CDC plans to roll out app in May to speed up COVID-19 case reporting (FierceHealth) Related: eCR Now for COVID-19 Reporting

• Coronavirus Patients Caught In Conflict Between Hospital And Nursing Homes (KHN)

• How Much More Than Medicare Do Private Insurers Pay? A Review of the Literature (KFF)

• US Court of Appeals upholds Iowa certificate-of-need law (Beckers)

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COVID-19 Information

Starting Points:

• U. S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
• State Health Departments
• NACCHO Directory Local Health Departments

Additional Resources:

• John Hopkins ABX Guide: Coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2)

• Related: Coronavirus COVID-19 Webinar Video for Clinicians| Hopkins Guides

• The Covid Tracking Project:
   Information and data from 50 US states, the District of Columbia, and 5 other US territories
• Oxford Martin School’s Our World Data -Covid 19
• University Of Minnesotta CIDRAP Covid Resources
• JAMA Sponsored Live Stream Q & A with CDC
• Kaiser Family Foundation COVID-19 News and Reports
• NEJM : A collection of articles and other resources on the Coronavirus (Covid-19)
• Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME): COVID-19 Resources
• Xtelligent Healthcare Media/HealthPayer: Ongoing Updates on Latest Coronavirus for the Healthcare Community
• Penn Center for Research on Coronavirus and Other Emerging Pathogens Webinars (You Tube Channel)

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