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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kedar, Eyal
• Scott, Regina
• Soule, Daniel
• Lovelett, Carly
• Tower, Kyle
• Broughal, Kylie
• Jaremczuk, Daniel
• Mohaddes, Sara
• Rainey-Spence, Imre
• Atkinson, Timothy

Titel

COVID-19 in a rural health system in New York - case series and an approach to management

Ist Teil von

• Rural and remote health, 2021-01, Vol.21 (3), p.6464-6464

Ort / Verlag

Townsville: James Cook University

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Introduction: Many rural hospitals and health systems in the USA lack sufficient resources to treat COVID-19. St Lawrence Health (SLH) developed a system for managing inpatient COVID-19 hospital admissions in St Lawrence County, an underserved rural county that is the largest county in New York State. Methods: SLH used a hub-and-spoke system to route COVID-19 patients to its flagship hospital. It further assembled a small clinical team to manage admitted COVID-19 patients and to stay abreast of a quickly changing body of literature and standard of care. A review of clinical data was completed for patients who were treated by SLH’s inpatient COVID-19 treatment team between 20 March and 22 May 2020. Results: Twenty COVID-19 patients were identified. Sixteen patients (80%) met National Institutes of Health criteria for severe or critical disease. One patient died. No patients were transferred to other hospitals. Conclusion: During the first 2 months of the pandemic, the authors were able to manage hospitalized COVID-19 patients in their rural community. Development of similar treatment models in other rural areas should be considered.