Acting with Empathy During COVID-19

A recent article by ECG Management Consultants reviews three steps organizations can take to increase inpatient bed capacity. 

Carlos Migoya, the CEO of Jackson Health System in Miami, asked nonclinical employees to take a voluntary personal leave during the next few weeks to avoid layoffs, according to Local 10. 

This recent article by ECG Management Consultants reviews the tactics hospitals and health systems can implement during staffing shortages.

Seventeen large health systems and big tech companies across the U.S., including Mayo Clinic, Intermountain Healthcare and Amazon, have formed a COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition. 

Apple and Salesforce are among technology companies vowing to donate at least 9 million protective masks to hospital workers who are dealing with a supply shortage — but there could be risk in relying on corporate philanthropy to solve this critical supply issue, according to Vox's Recode. 

What healthcare providers are doing to enhance standardization and clinical knowledge

Health systems across the country are taking different approaches to triaging and testing patients for the coronavirus.

The coronavirus pandemic has stressed the healthcare system and economy while heightening anxiety around spreading the disease.

To drive performance improvements within its trauma program and the state designation process, Tacoma, Wash.-based Mary Bridge Children's Hospital enlisted the help of Philips healthcare transformation services.

Traditional retailers like Walmart, Walgreens and CVS have found an opportunity in healthcare: delivering expedited, integrated care through their walk-in and urgent care clinics.

In the evolving world of healthcare, advanced practice clinicians are poised to play an important role in helping fill physician shortages at hospitals and other medical centers in underserved areas.

C-level leaders need to be more aware of the rigor and validity of management studies, according to Strategy+Business.

The advent of online shopping spurred the downfall of traditional retailers that either invested poorly or didn't understand their customers. Blockbuster, for instance, folded in 2010 in part because the company failed to anticipate the demand for streaming and on-demand video services.

After setting record highs in February, Standard & Poor's 500 index, Dow Jones and Nasdaq have dropped 19 percent, driven by several factors including the coronavirus outbreak, according to the LA Times.

While the U.S. has the highest suicide rate among global peers despite spending much more on healthcare, it's not alone in its growing need for increased access to behavioral health services. It's a fact Robert Garrett, CEO of Hackensack (N.J.) Meridian Health, was acutely aware of as a speaker at the 2020 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

President and CEO of Ascension Joseph Impicciche is leading the 150-hospital health system through a strategic transformation to better serve its communities and improve healthcare delivery.

The United States has long been a global leader in medical research and innovation, yet we rank lower than 38 other countries on measurements of children's survival, health, education and nutrition, according to a recent report from the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund, published in The Lancet.

Walmart has expanded its footprint in the primary care market in the past six months by opening two standalone health centers in Georgia. The retail giant is changing the way people receive medical care by adopting a different approach than drug stores that have health clinics.

The healthcare industry has experienced rapid transformation over the past decade, with new patient expectations, technology and payment models serving as the primary drivers of change.