Most hospitals had to improvise as they pivoted to pandemic care. How health care will look after the pandemic and how we can prepare for the next one. Running, to reimagining their business model, these leaders are already thinking about From recruitingĪnd retaining the doctors, nurses, and other essential workers who keep hospitals The executives working to steer hospitals and health systems through COVID.
And no one was better situated to learn these lessons than Its strengths-heroic providers and adaptability in the face of uncertainty-and areas I wouldn’t expect my team to do something that I wouldn’t do myself.Īcross the country, the pandemic put stress on the health care system, revealing both To procedures and protocols as scientists learned more about the virus and healthĬare providers adapted to changing conditions. Would be focused on treating the deluge of COVID-19 patients with constant adjustments Hospitals and medical centers throughout Michigan, postponed elective procedures,Īnd restricted visitors for the health and safety of employees and patients. In an hour, but that wasn’t the case then.”Īs the state shut down everything from restaurants to schools, Henry Ford, which has Was it airborne? Did it live on surfaces? Now, we can get test results “There were so many things we didn’t knowĪt the time. “It definitely was a fast build,” said Brooks-Williams, senior vice president andĬEO, North Market, with Henry Ford Health. MHSA ’91, was on the front lines of a global pandemic. Then, all of a sudden, the Detroit area had becomeĪ hot spot for a disease that had only just been named COVID-19, and Denise Brooks-Williams, It felt like everything happened at once.Īt first, the pandemic was far away.
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