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Track COVID-19 Rates to Signal When to Resume Non-Emergent Care
CMS published guidelines Sunday for hospitals who want to expand their operations again, but as with the White House and CDC criteria on “Opening Up America Again” issued April 16, moving toward normal depends on the number of COVID-19 cases in a region and whether those numbers are going down.
 

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Coronavirus: 10 Considerations for Resuming Elective Surgery
To boost resources for treating hospitalized COVID-19 patients, governors across the country have ordered hospitals to delay elective surgery procedures. Last month, ACS released guidance for determining which elective surgeries could be delayed appropriately.
FDA: 4 million N95 Masks Could Be Reused Thanks to Emergency Order
The process has N95 masks placed in a room, sprayed with vaporized hydrogen peroxide using a special machine, and left to dry. A mask can be reprocessed up to 10 times for single-user reuse.
Doctors Should Not Have to Decide Who Lives or Dies
In these times, there is no avoiding unpleasant decisions. But we can choose who makes those decisions. There is a world of difference between the ethical rules that govern the care of patients and the ethical rules that govern public health. Clinical ethics prioritize each individual and leave little room for utilitarian calculations. By contrast, in public health ethics, the value of individual lives is overshadowed by the needs of society.
The Future of Work in Healthcare: A Strategic Approach to Bridging the Generational Divide
Aging clinicians, who started their careers in a healthcare environment that prioritized spending time with patients above all, maintain excellent relationship-building skills but may not stay on top of all the technological developments. On the flip side, younger clinicians are generally comfortable and competent in the use of technology, but may not have spent as much meaningful time at the patient’s bedside as their seasoned colleagues.
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Hand Hygiene For All: What’s the Rub?
Everyone in healthcare, whether frontline staff or providers of ancillary services, must consistently perform hand hygiene. This May 19 webinar will discuss how we achieve compliance with this basic practice of infection prevention.
 

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