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. 2020 Oct:197:106156.
doi: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2020.106156. Epub 2020 Aug 17.

Keeping the team together: Transformation of an inpatient neurology service at an urban, multi-ethnic, safety net hospital in New York City during COVID-19

Aaron S Lord  1 , Nicole Lombardi  2 , Katherine Evans  2 , Dewi Deveaux  2 , Elizabeth Douglas  2 , Laura Mansfield  2 , Elina Zakin  3 , Katarzyna Jakubowska-Sadowska  3 , Kammi Grayson  3 , Mirza Omari  3 , Shadi Yaghi  3 , Kelley Humbert  3 , Matt Sanger  3 , Sun Kim  3 , Michael Boffa  3 , Mariana Szuchumacher  3 , Amy Jongeling  3 , Blanca Vazquez  3 , Nisida Berberi  3 , Patrick Kwon  3 , Gianna Locascio  3 , Alexander Chervinsky  3 , Jennifer Frontera  3 , Ting Zhou  3 , D Ethan Kahn  3 , Nada Abou-Fayssal  3
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Keeping the team together: Transformation of an inpatient neurology service at an urban, multi-ethnic, safety net hospital in New York City during COVID-19

Aaron S Lord et al. Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2020 Oct.

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically affected the operations of New York City hospitals during March and April of 2020. This article describes the transformation of a neurology division at a 450-bed tertiary care hospital in a multi-ethnic community in Brooklyn during this initial wave of COVID-19. In lieu of a mass redeployment of staff to internal medicine teams, we report a novel method for a neurology division to participate in a hospital's expansion of care for patients with COVID-19 while maintaining existing team structures and their inherent supervisory and interpersonal support mechanisms.

Keywords: COVID-19; Neurohospitalist; Neurology administration; Neurology residency; Stroke.

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