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May 2020 COVID-19 COVID-19 IN THE LITERATURE Volume 24 No. 5 Framework provided Michigan hospitalists Hotspotting does not p6 for a PUI unit p11 get ICU skills p18 reduce readmissions At U.S. Ground Zero for coronavirus, a hospital is transformed By Kari Oakes MDedge News avid Baker, MD, a hospitalist at EvergreenHealth in Kirk- land, Wash., had just come off a 7-day stretch of work Dand was early into his usual 7 days off. He’d helped care for some patients from a nearby assisted living facility who had been admitted with puzzlingly severe vi- ral pneumonia that wasn’t influenza. Though COVID-19, the novel corona- virus that was sickening tens of thou- sands in the Chinese province of Hubei, was in the back of everyone’s mind in late February, he said he wasn’t really expecting the call notifying him that two of the patients with pneumonia had tested positive for COVID-19. Continued on page 8 First row from the bottom: Dr. Maria Lazareva. 2nd row: Dr. James Colquhoun. 3rd row: Dr. Nancy Marshall. 4th row (L): Dr. Johnson Loh. 4th row (R): Dr. Anna Dolgner. 5th row (L): Dr. Ryan Uselman. 5th row (R): Dr. Ronald Huang. ® PHOTO COURTESY EVERGREENHEALTH, KIRKLAND, WASH. the-hospitalist.org PEDIATRICS EDITOR’S DESK Anika Kumar, MD, Weijen Chang, MD, FHM, FAAP SFHM, FAAP Managing infants born to Moving beyond the 500 PERMIT Denville, NJ 07834-3000 NJ Denville, PA HARRISBURG p12 mothers with COVID-19. p26 hospital ward. PAID 3000, Box P.O. POSTAGE U.S. THE HOSPITALIST THE STD PRSRT REQUESTED SERVICE CHANGE 01_2_8_9_HOSP20_5.indd 1 4/22/20 10:33 AM CAREER NEWS May 2020 Volume 24 No. 5 Hospitalist PHYSICIAN EDITOR THE SOCIETY OF HOSPITAL MEDICINE Weijen W. Chang, MD, SFHM, FAAP Phone: 800-843-3360 [email protected] Fax: 267-702-2690 Movers and Shakers Website: www.HospitalMedicine.org PEDIATRIC EDITOR Laurence Wellikson, MD, MHM, CEO Anika Kumar, MD, FHM, FAAP Vice President of Marketing & By Matt Pesyna Hospital (Richmond, Va.). Dr. Ibe [email protected] Communications will be charged with creating a COORDINATING EDITORS Lisa Zoks ediatric hospitalists Linda stronger connect between staff at Dennis Chang, MD [email protected] Marketing Communications Manager THE FUTURE HOSPITALIST Bloom, MD, Corina Sandru, VCU Health CMH and the clinical Brett Radler MD, and Ilana Price MD, programs at VCU Medical Center’s Keri Holmes-Maybank, MD, FHM [email protected] all from Reading Hospital – main campus. KEY CLINICAL GUIDELINES Marketing Communications Specialist PTower Health (West Reading, Pa.) re- Dr. Ibe has been medical director CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Caitlin Cowan John Bell, MD, FHM; Weijen W. Chang, [email protected] cently earned board certification in of the hospitalist MD, SFHM, FAAP Ernie Esquivel, MD; SHM BOARD OF DIRECTORS pediatric hospital medicine from the group since start- Kara Gavin; Andrea Hadley, MD; Alan M. President American Board of Pediatrics. This ing at VCU Health Hall, MD; Tony Ho, MD; Sarah Horman, Danielle Scheurer, MD, MSCR, SFHM MD; Chi-Cheng Huang, MD, FACP, SFHM; President-Elect was the first certification of its kind CMH in 2018. He Nitesh Kumar Jain, MD; Ian Jenkins, MD, Jerome C. Siy, MD, SFHM given by the ABP. will continue to SFHM; Robert Killeen, MD; Mark S. Lesney; Treasurer Sitting for the board certification care for patients William C. Lippert, MD, MPH; Christopher Rachel Thompson, MD, MPH, SFHM Morris, MD; Ryan Nelson, MD; Kari Oakes; Secretary exam required ABP certification and and guide the Venkataraman Palabindala, MD, FACP, Kris Rehm, MD, SFHM meeting the training requirements hospitalist pro- SFHM; Matt Pesnya; David Schmit, MD; Immediate Past President set for pediatric hospital medicine, gram while in his Greg Seymann, MD, SFHM; Padageshwar Christopher Frost, MD, SFHM Sunkara, MD, MMCI, FACP, FHM; Raghav Board of Directors which was recognized as a subspe- Dr. Ibe new role until his Tirupathi, MD; Sadie Trammell-Velasquez, Tracy Cardin, ACNP-BC, SFHM cialty in 2016. replacement is MD; Gregory Twachtman; Emily Wang, MD Steven B. Deitelzweig, MD, Felipe Castorena, MD, recently found. He previously directed the MMM, FACC, SFHM FRONTLINE MEDICAL Bryce Gartland, MD, FHM received the Humanitarian Award at hospitalist program at Richmond’s COMMUNICATIONS EDITORIAL STAFF Flora Kisuule, MD, MPH, SFHM the Northwell Health Hospital Med- St. Mary’s Hospital. Executive Editor Kathy Scarbeck Mark W. Shen, MD, SFHM icine Academic Summit. Dr. Castore- The medical staff at Saint Thomas Editor Richard Pizzi Darlene Tad-y, MD, SFHM Creative Director Louise A. Koenig Chad T. Whelan, MD, FACP, FHM na was honored for the volunteer Rutherford Hospital (Murfreesboro, Director, Production/Manufacturing work he did with underserved com- Tenn.) has voted David Sellers, MD, Rebecca Slebodnik FRONTLINE MEDICAL COMMUNICATIONS ADVERTISING STAFF munities in the Dominican Republic to be chief of staff for a 2-year term EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD National Account Manager in October 2018. that began in January 2020. Geeta Arora, MD; Michael J. Beck, MD; Valerie Bednarz, 973-206-8954 Dr. Castorena worked with the Dr. Sellers is the lead hospitalist Harry Cho, MD; Marina S. Farah, MD, cell 973-907-0230 [email protected] MHA; Stella Fitzgibbons, MD, FACP, Dr. Almanzar Foundation, providing at Ascension Saint Thomas Ruther- FHM; Benjamin Frizner, MD, FHM; Classied Sales Representative Nicolas Houghton, DNP, RN, ACNP-BC; medical care that included vaccine ford. Dr. Sellers, as chief of staff, will Heather Gonroski, 973-290-8259 James Kim, MD; Melody Msiska, MD; administration, surgery, and general chair the hospital’s Medical Execu- [email protected] Venkataraman Palabindala, MD, FACP, Linda Wilson, 973-290-8243 checkups. A native of Mexico, Dr. tive Committee, as well as serving as SFHM; Raj Sehgal, MD, FHM; Rehaan [email protected] Shafe, MD; Kranthi Sitammagari, MD; Castorena is a hospitalist at Phelps the staff’s advocate at overall board Senior Director of Classied Sales Hospital in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. meetings. In addition, he will seek Amith Skandhan, MD, FHM; Lonika Sood, MD, FACP, FHM; Amanda T. Trask, FACHE, Tim LaPella, 484-921-5001 Alteon Health has named Frank continuing education opportunities MBA, MHA, SFHM; Amit Vashist, MD, cell 610-506-3474 [email protected] Kelley, MD, as one of three 2019 for staff, and safeguard that the FACP; Jill Waldman, MD, SFHM Advertising Ofces 7 Century Drive, Facility Medical Directors of the staff aligns along board policies. Suite 302, Parsippany, NJ 07054-4609 Year. Dr. Kelley serves as director Angela Shippy, MD, FHM, has 973-206-3434, fax 973-206-9378 of hospital medicine at University been promoted to senior vice pres- Hospitals Portage Medical Center ident and chief medical officer at (Ravenna, Ohio). 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