COVID-19: Cleveland Clinic’s plans for safety, resource optimization, and redeployment

On March 27, 2020, Dr. Cara King (@drcaraking) hosts Beri Ridgeway, MD, (@beridgeway) Institute Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women’s Health, Cleveland Clinic.

They discuss:

• Ohio’s state of affairs regarding COVID-19
• Testing sites and tests completed to date
• Who can be tested for COVID-19, based on allocation of resources and underlying conditions
• The virtual approach to testing using telephones, FaceTime, and Google Duo
• Insurance coverage of virtual visits and charity care
• In-patient and out-patient visitation policy and hospital entrance checkpoints
• Wearing masks: current evidence-based approach
• COVID-19 modeling for Cleveland Clinic: contingency plans for worst-case scenarios
• Reducing nonessential operations
• COVID-19 preparations with many unknowns
• Elective surgeries: the slowdown of operations
• Supertracking GYN and early OB patients in a COVID-19 hot zone
• Redeployment strategy for now low-volume providers, including ObGyns
• Supporting staff emotionally

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This podcast is developed in collaboration with the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons

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