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Responding to Covid-19 as a Regional Public Health Challenge, guidance from The Hastings Center regarding collaboration among hospitals within a region, April 29, 2020 |
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Ethical Framework for Health Care Institutions & Guidelines for Institutional Ethics Services Responding to the Coronavirus Pandemic from The Hastings Center, March 16, 2020 |
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COVID-19 and Underinvestment in the Public Health Infrastructure of the United States and COVID-19 and Underinvestment in the Health of the US Population in The Millbank Quarterly discuss features of US policy that made it more susceptible to COVID-19 and its lingering effects, June 2020 |
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Lessons from Covid-19: Why Treating Sick Patients is Bad Business for Hospitals places in the broader context of the US health insurance system the economic challenges of caring for COVID-19 patients faced by healthcare institutions and society |
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COVID-19 and Health Data Privacy—from The Network for Public Health Law, this FAQ addresses HIPAA compliance and disclosures to various entities (e.g., housing authorities, law enforcement, media) |
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Limited Waiver of HIPAA Sanctions and Penalties During a Nationwide Public Health Emergency—from the Department of Health and Human Services, March 2020 |
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John Hick, Dan Hanfling, Matthew Wynia, & Andrew Pavia National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Perspective article on hospital planning for COVID-19 triage: Duty to Plan: Health Care, Crisis Standards of Care, and Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 |
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Guidance on hospital preparation from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security: What US Hospitals Should Do Now to Prepare for a COVID-19 Pandemic |
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Optimizing Surge Capacity: Hospital Assessment and Planning This AHRQ issue brief discusses tools that can assist hospitals and other healthcare facilities with an assessment of their current capacity and develop a plan to achieve optimal surge capacity |
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Altered Standards of Care in Mass Casualty Events This AHRQ report is a summary of findings that emerged from experts’ discussion of the provision of health and medical care in a mass casualty event. It also includes recommendations for action that could be undertaken to support planning an effective response to a mass casualty event |
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Addressing Ethical Issues in Pandemic Influenza Planning, World Health Organization, 2007 |
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CDC page on clinical guidance for state and local readiness |
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Guidance on pandemic influenza from the Pandemic Influenza Ethics Initiative Work Group of the Veteran’s Health Administration’s National Center for Ethics in Health Care (2010): Meeting the Challenge of Pandemic Influenza: Ethical Guidance for Leaders and Health Care Professionals in the Veterans Health Administration |
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ASPR TRACIE resource page on crisis standards of care |
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During A Pandemic, States’ Patchwork Of Crisis Strategies Could Mean Uneven Care—Kaiser Health News article on the state-by-state nature of pandemic preparedness and response, with quotes from Matthew Wynia, John Hick, & James Hodge |