To boost resources for treating hospitalized coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients, governors across the country have ordered hospitals to delay elective surgery procedures. The American College of Surgeons (ACS) has released recommendations to guide healthcare providers when they resume elective surgery that has been put on hold during the coronavirus pandemic.

If organizations merely address legalities in their contracts with physicians and fail to define expectations, they almost guarantee that the physician employment contract is only worth the paper that it is written on. In the contract, the employer must reinforce the behaviors it expects of physicians based on multiple dimensions of physician performance.

Practicing social distancing is a must in the era of COVID-19, but so is education. That’s why we’re offering the Credentialing Resource Center Virtual Symposium. Attendees of this one-of-a-kind event will have the opportunity to listen live to the programs during the virtual event from June 2-4. Or play them at a later date that works for your schedule: you’ll have access to all educational sessions until November 30, 2020.

Across the country, organizations and their staffs are uniting in the fight against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, and the virus has had an unprecedented effect on the healthcare industry.

Practitioners must be extremely cautious when seeing patients who have potentially contracted COVID-19. Like many other organizations, Oak Street Health in Illinois has developed a specific protocol for the evaluation of such cases.

As a physician treating COVID-19 patients since the start of the outbreak in the United States, it comes as no surprise that Raúl Zambrano, MS, MD, MRO, FAAFP, FACHE, a contracted the virus from a patient.