General Session: Short of Ventilators -- How We Wound Up Here Again, and Probably Will in the Future

David N. Hoffman, Chief Compliance Officer, Carthage Area Hospital.

October 27, 2020

  • When the COVID-19 pandemic passes, numerous task forces, workgroups, and blue-ribbon panels will be formed to draw lessons from the successes and failures of our current response efforts. But why were we so unprepared this time?

  • We know how we will respond after the pandemic passes because in each earlier public health emergency, we fell into the same scripted response

  • In this session, the presenter will describe his involvement in hospital planning in response to the SARS, MERS, H1N1, and Ebola events, and how compliance officers must make sure that lessons learned are implemented and not forgotten

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