(Ebook) Health Crisis Management in Acute Care Hospitals: Lessons Learned from COVID-19 and Beyond by Ridwan Shabsigh (Editor) ISBN 9783030958053, 3030958051

(Ebook) Health Crisis Management in Acute Care Hospitals: Lessons Learned from COVID-19 and Beyond by Ridwan Shabsigh (Editor) ISBN 9783030958053, 3030958051

The COVID-19 crisis came as an unpleasant surprise and a shock to many healthcaresystems and hospitals especially in the crisis epicenter of New York City. TheBronx was one of the hardest-hit boroughs of New York City with significant negativeimpact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its indigent population. SBH HealthSystem (formerly known as St. Barnabas Hospital) is an integrated system of anacute-care hospital, ambulatory care center, trauma center, dialysis center, strokecenter, and other services and facilities serving the community of the Bronx. Thestory of SBH in preparing for and managing the rapidly escalating surge of severelyill patients at the onset of the COVID-19 crisis is a treasure of lessons in health crisispreparedness and management at all levels, clinical, administrative, and financial.This book draws lessons from the success of SBH Health System in tackling thedramatically fast unfolding pandemic from the perspective of the system as a wholeand from each of the specific departments which all played a significant role inmanaging the local crisis of the largest threat to human health the world has seen inrecent years. Such lessons may benefit us and other health systems and hospitalselsewhere in planning and preparing for similar crises in the future.