The Covid-19 Response in New York City

Crisis Management in the Epicenter of the Epicenter

Syra S. Madad, Laura G. Iavicoli, Eric K. Wei, Syra S. Madad, Laura G. Iavicoli, Eric K. Wei

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9780443187551
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443187568
• Topic: Scienze biologiche
• Subtopic: Biologia

The COVID-19 Response in New York City: Crisis Management in the Largest Public Health System provides an historical accounting of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic through the eyes of the largest public health system in the United States. The book offers a roadmap to guide healthcare systems and their providers in the event of future pandemics. Readers will learn about surge staffing and level loading, as well as tips from the ED and ICUs on how to respond to an unprecedented influx of inpatients. Written by healthcare providers who were at the epicenter of the pandemic in New York City, this book provides a sound accounting of the response to the pandemic in one of the world's largest cities. - Provides historical context of the COVID-19 response by NYC Health + Hospitals - Covers how to respond to a mass influx of patients and sustained crisis over a year+ - Presents information on standing up genomic sequencing

Table of contents

• The Covid-19 Response in New York City
• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1 Standing up the emergency response in the epicenter of the epicenter
• Chapter 2 The history of NYC Health + Hospitals
• Chapter 3 Emergency Departments spring into action
• Chapter 4 The crisis shifted to the intensive care units
• Chapter 5 Bringing key players together, standing up incident command, and communicating with everyone
• Chapter 6 The iterations of patient movement throughout the surge: Load-balancing demand through interfacility transfers
• Chapter 7 Supply chain and PPE, the wave 1 dilemma
• Chapter 8 Staffing for pandemic surges in the NYC safety-net health system
• Chapter 9 Fatality management during the worst crisis of our lifetime
• Chapter 10 Fine tuning the surge (and flex) plan
• Chapter 11 Situational awareness, going from flying blind to eyes on it all: DnA (Data and Analytics)
• Chapter 12 IT-coordinating the technology infrastructure of the system
• Chapter 13 Donations were a full-time job
• Chapter 14 The correctional health response to COVID-19
• Chapter 15 Alternate care sites including hoteling, a new path in a massive surge response
• Chapter 16 Behavioral health and COVID-19
• Chapter 17 External affairs: Managing communications with regulators and stakeholders
• Chapter 18 Testing and tracing in the “world's capital”
• Chapter 19 Vaccines and outpatient therapeutics: The race against the variants and the road to normalcy
• Chapter 20 Wellness and Helping Healers Heal during the biggest crisis of our lifetime
• Chapter 21 The future of public healthcare delivery systems in the United States in the post-COVID era
• Index