Main description:

The COVID-19 Disruption and the Global Health Dilemma provides an historical accounting of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic through the eyes of the largest pubic health system in the United States, one that served the hardest hit neighborhoods in New York City. The book offers a roadmap to guide healthcare systems and their providers in the event of future pandemics. Readers will learn from healthcare providers at the epicenter of the pandemic in New York City about surge staffing and level loading, along with tips from the ED and ICUs on how to respond to an unprecedented influx of inpatients.

Contents:

1. The history of the largest public health system in the United States
2. Standing up the Emergency Response at the Epicenter of the Epicenter
3. Emergency Departments Spring into Action
4. As the Crisis Shifted to the Intensive Care Units
5. Bringing key players together, standing up incident command and communicating with everyone
6. The iterations of patient movement throughout the surge
7. Supply Chain and PPE, the Wave One Dilemma
8. Surge Staffing During a Vendor Provider Shortage
9. Fatality Management During the Worst Crisis of Our Lifetime
10. Fine Tuning the Surge Plan
11. The Invaluable Laboratory Response
12. Situational Awareness, Going from Flying Blind to Eyes on it All
13. IT - Coordinating the Technology Infrastructure of the System
14. Donations were a Full Time Job
15. Correctional Health Response to COVID-19
16. Alternate Care Sites Including Hoteling, a New Path in a Massive Surge Response
17. Behavioral Health and COVID-19
18. Keeping Track of it All
19. Testing and Tracing in the "World's Capital"
20. Vaccinations - the Road to Normalcy and the Race Against the Variants
21. Wellness and Helping Healers Heal during the biggest crisis of our lifetime
22. The Future of the Public Health Systems