Background: The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to challenging staffing situations for health systems. Rapid increases in patient volumes, coupled with clinician illness, need for quarantine/isolation as well as other workforce restrictions, have required systems to become nimble in clinician staffing. To overcome these challenges, novel approaches have been utilized including the employment of non-traditional [...]

Background: The COVID-19 crisis has put an unprecedented strain on the US healthcare system (1). Hospital Medicine (HM) has been on the front lines of the crisis response (2). Multiple surges and troughs are expected before the pandemic subsides with a very large surge predicted for the winter of 2020-2021 (3). As the HM service [...]