Considerations for Assessing Regional Patient Load-Balancing Effects during COVID-19 | NLM

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Considerations for Assessing Regional Patient Load-Balancing Effects during COVID-19

09/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] (HHS ASPR). Published: 9/1/2020. This four-page document from the Healthcare Resilience Working Group promotes constructs such as the Medical Operations Coordination Cell (MOCC) during the COVID-19 pandemic to create a regional approach, including policies to support these load-balancing operations, particularly through hospital-to-hospital patient transfers. (PDF)