Creating a Colocation Unit for End-of-Life Care during a Pandemic.
J Palliat Med
; 24(4): 574-579, 2021 04.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-772742
ABSTRACT
Background:
Palliative care seeks to support the physical, psycho-social and spiritual needs of patients and families who are facing life threatening diseases. Advantages of establishing a palliative care unit, or alternatively co-locating patients, include promoting optimal physical and psychological symptom management; increased family satisfaction; and facilitating resource allocation.Objective:
To design a stand-alone hospital unit to provide end of life care during a pandemic.Setting:
Mount Sinai Hospital (MSH), a 1,144 bed tertiary- and quaternary-care teaching facility and Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai.Method:
Tracking key indicators signaling the need for conversion to a COVID-19 unit, and identifying factors to facilitate a successful conversion. Result/Implementation Using previously identified key focused action categories as framework, we describe our successful palliative care unit (PCU) conversion into a COVID-19 care unit.Conclusion:
We believe that these operational insights gained from transforming our unit during COVID-19 will be helpful to other programs and institutions during a pandemic, or public health emergencies.Keywords
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Terminal Care
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COVID-19
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Hospital Units
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
J Palliat Med
Journal subject:
Health Services
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Jpm.2020.0502
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