Former ACHE Chair and Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award-winning CEO says it's time to pay healthcare workers for being the warriors they are in the COVID-19 pandemic.
The leadership team at San Diego-based Scripps Health has experience at disaster preparedness and emergencies but even that preparation could not quite prepare any team for a public health emergency the scale of COVID-19.
HSS suspended all nonessential surgeries, expanded capacity, and is treating patients from other hospitals in need of emergency orthopedic surgery, medical-surgery and critical care, regardless of COVID status.