Background: The onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic created innumerable challenges and demanded rapid innovation for perioperative medicine. In March 2020, in response to our institution’s expectations, our hospitalist-led preoperative medicine clinic rapidly pivoted to patient care via telehealth. Purpose: Before the pandemic, our hospitalist-led preoperative medicine clinic was already in the early planning stages […]

Background: Constraints on resources require healthcare systems to implement alternative and innovative means for delivering care. The COVID-19 pandemic amplified this issue throughout the world, leading to shortages of ventilators, hospital beds, and healthcare personnel. We report the results of an Acute Care at Home (ACH) program’s response to COVID-19, providing in-home hospital-level care to […]

Background: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has required healthcare systems around the world to rapidly innovate and adapt to unprecedented operational and clinical strain. Anticipated limitations in healthcare resource allocation is coupled by the strife caused by the variable clinical course of COVID-19 and the isolation of families inevitable with an inpatient admission. Many healthcare systems have […]

Background: Telemedicine has been increasingly relied upon to deliver health care remotely. During the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine has been essential to conserving PPE and minimizing potential exposures. Though more frequently used in outpatient settings, telephone and video visits are now also being used to connect hospitalized patients with members of their inpatient care team. Data […]