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cord-330368-rk31cwl4	Bowden, Kasey	Harnessing the Power of Hospitalists in Operational Disaster Planning: COVID-19	2020-07-13		.txt	text/plain	2462	107	46	Much of the disaster planning in hospitals around the country addresses overcrowded emergency departments and decompressing these locations; however, in the case of COVID-19, intensive care units, emergency departments, and medical wards ran the risk of being overwhelmed by a large influx of patients needing high-level medical care. In a matter of days, our Division of Hospital Medicine, in partnership with our hospital, health system, and academic institution, was able to modify and deploy existing disaster plans to quickly care for an influx of medically complex patients. Starting with preparedness models outlined by Persoff et al., 10 Frank et al., 8 the CHEST consensus statement, 11, 12 and our existing disaster plans, we developed a modified framework for hospital operations management and staffing, anticipating a massive influx of acutely ill, medically complex, and highly contagious patients with COVID-19.	./cache/cord-330368-rk31cwl4.txt	./txt/cord-330368-rk31cwl4.txt