How hospitals have been coping as COVID rates rise

Hospital staff say lessons learned have made them better prepared.
1:29 | 09/22/23

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[MUSIC PLAYING] MICHAEL KORPIEL: The last three years have been a great learning experience for our system and our hospital. We are better prepared today than we have been in the past for any COVID outbreak that may occur. RAMI ZEBIAN: I think that we have had a lot of lessons learned. And we have definitely more tools to treat, to diagnose, to identify who's going to get worse. But we should always be on alert. We know-- as the chief medical officer, I know I can protect my staff, I can protect the nurses. I know that I can give tools to physicians on what to do. So it decreases that anxiety. But you always have to be on alert. [MUSIC PLAYING] - The COVID pandemic has helped us better coordinate the services across the community when any of us get really-- gets really overburdened by patients. And so as a system, we're better, as well as a community we are better. And that's both very good things.

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