Creating a Colocation Unit for End-of-Life Care during a Pandemic
| Autor: | Jose de Leon, Amy Reyes-Arnaldy, Olusegun Apoeso, Natasha Piracha, Emily Chai, Suzanne L. Goldhirsch, Caitlyn Kuwata |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Geriatrics
Terminal Care medicine.medical_specialty Palliative care Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) business.industry Public health Palliative Care COVID-19 General Medicine Unit (housing) Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Nursing Pandemic medicine Humans Tracking (education) business Hospital Units Pandemics End-of-life care General Nursing |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Palliative Medicine |
| ISSN: | 1557-7740 1096-6218 |
| Popis: | Background: Palliative care seeks to support the physical, psycho-social and spiritual needs of patients and families who are facing life threatening diseases. Advantages of establishing a palliative care unit, or alternatively co-locating patients, include promoting optimal physical and psychological symptom management; increased family satisfaction; and facilitating resource allocation. Objective: To design a stand-alone hospital unit to provide end of life care during a pandemic. Setting: Mount Sinai Hospital (MSH), a 1,144 bed tertiary- and quaternary-care teaching facility and Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai. Method: Tracking key indicators signaling the need for conversion to a COVID-19 unit, and identifying factors to facilitate a successful conversion. Result/Implementation: Using previously identified key focused action categories as framework, we describe our successful palliative care unit (PCU) conversion into a COVID-19 care unit. Conclusion: We believe that these operational insights gained from transforming our unit during COVID-19 will be helpful to other programs and institutions during a pandemic, or public health emergencies. |
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