• Kasey Bowden, Ellen L Burnham, Angela Keniston, Dimitriy Levin, Julia Limes, Jason Persoff, Lindsay Thurman, and Marisha Burden.
• Division of Hospital Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
• J Gen Intern Med. 2020 Sep 1; 35 (9): 273227372732-2737.

AbstractHospitalists are well poised to serve in key leadership roles and in frontline care in particular when facing a pandemic such as the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection. Much of the disaster planning in hospitals around the country addresses overcrowded emergency departments and decompressing these locations; however, in the case of COVID-19, intensive care units, emergency departments, and medical wards ran the risk of being overwhelmed by a large influx of patients needing high-level medical care. In a matter of days, our Division of Hospital Medicine, in partnership with our hospital, health system, and academic institution, was able to modify and deploy existing disaster plans to quickly care for an influx of medically complex patients. We describe a scaled approach to managing hospitalist clinical operations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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