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Redefining Pathways into Acute Rehabilitation during the COVID ‐19 Crisis
Author(s) -
Gitkind Andrew I.,
Levin Sheryl,
Dohle Carolin,
Herbold Janet,
Thomas Mark,
OhPark Mooyeon,
Bartels Matthew N.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
pmandr
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.617
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1934-1563
pISSN - 1934-1482
DOI - 10.1002/pmrj.12392
Subject(s) - ingenuity , pandemic , rehabilitation , covid-19 , medicine , health care , acute care , medical emergency , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , physical therapy , economic growth , outbreak , virology , pathology , neoclassical economics , economics
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic has necessitated drastic changes across the spectrum of health care, all of which have occurred with unprecedented rapidity. The need to accommodate change on such a large scale has required ingenuity and decisive thinking. The field of physical medicine and rehabilitation has been faced with many of these challenges. Healthcare practitioners in New York City, the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States, were among the first to encounter many of these challenges. One of the largest lessons included learning how to streamline admissions and transfer process into an acute rehabilitation hospital as part of a concerted effort to make acute care hospital beds available as quickly as possible.