Strategy of hospital logistics support to the battle against COVID-19 by a hospital / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

Public hospitals in the face of COVID-19, should prioritize medical services of patients as the topmost task. In order to ensure the smooth progress of diagnosis and treatment, and prevent the occurrence of nosocomial infection, the hospital took an overall response strategy featuring " logistics support mode 3+ 1" . This strategy requires to make facilities ready by transforming isolation wards, overall management and deployment of protection supplies, optimizing logistics service flow, strict sterilization and isolation of medical wastes and environment, optimizing catering service within the hospital to reduce the gathering and flow of personnel. It also enhanced personnel training, to eliminate staff panic and to stabilize the logistics support team. Meanwhile, the logistics department took over the hospital access screening work for tight access control, which maximize the safety and reliability of the logistics support within the hospital, and ensure the smooth progress of the epidemic prevention work.