Reports Outline COVID-19 Study Results from Henry Ford Health Systems (Covid-19 In the Hotspot of Metropolitan Detroit: a Multi-faceted Health System Experience): Coronavirus – COVID-19

2021 DEC 24 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx COVID-19 Daily -- Researchers detail new data in Coronavirus - COVID-19. According to news reporting originating from Detroit, Michigan, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Health systems were abruptly plunged into a crisis as SARS-CoV-2 exploded into a pandemic in spring 2020.”

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Henry Ford Health Systems, “In March-April 2020, Metropolitan Detroit was a US ‘hotspot.’ As a large health system with five hospitals and two behavioural health inpatient facilities, a health insurance company, a medical group and physician network, and 41 ambulatory clinics normally hosting over 10,000 daily patient encounters, the Henry Ford Health System deployed numerous strategies in the management of this upheaval. As hospitals and Emergency Departments were inundated with COVID-19 patients, other services and activities needed to shut down as state-mandated policies were promulgated, new internal and external communication networks established, and management of employees and resources such as ventilators, ICU beds, personal protective equipment, and laboratory supplies became critical challenges.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “We describe herein the system-wide strategies implemented and lessons learned in the operation of a health system in the initial throes of a global pandemic.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Covid-19 In the Hotspot of Metropolitan Detroit: a Multi-faceted Health System Experience. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2021. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management can be contacted at: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA.

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Steven Kalkanis, Henry Ford Health System, Henry Ford Med Grp Adm, Detroit, MI, United States. Additional authors for this research include Linda Gifford, Christine C. Johnson, Nadia Haque, Karla D. Passalacqua and Jennifer Swiderek.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3392. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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