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The message is clear: Nurses and physicians should treat asymptomatic patients as carefully as symptomatic patients.
BMC takes on financially distressed ambulatory surgery centers and makes them viable, company says.
The physicians are needed to meet the demand during the COVID-19 pandemic, AMA says.
Finding ways to connect meaningfully with patients is almost as important as those patients finding ways to connect with each other.
The decision is unrelated to the current COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, Kaiser says.
Many hospitals will not be able to survive the damage to their cash flow for longer than 60-90 days, report says.
The recommendations center on redirecting the supply of the drugs from retail pharmacy settings to the hospital/acute care environment.
The need for these services has increased as community measures to slow transmission of COVID-19 has closed meal sites.
The money may be spent on telehealth, screening and testing, or acquiring medical supplies such as personal protection equipment.
This is concerning for providers, whose reimbursement is increasingly tied to the 30-day readmissions metric.