Inpatient Psychiatry During COVID-19: A Systems Perspective

Numerous reports describe how individual hospitals responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, but few describe how these changes occurred across a large public health system of care. As the early epicenter of the pandemic, New York State ’s response, particularly the New York City metropolitan area, included a range of coordinated planning and regulatory efforts to preserve and create medical and intensive care unit capacity where needed; maintain access to acute psychiatric services; and redefine inpatient psychiatric care throug h strict infection control, easing of regulatory requirements, and use of telehealth. These strategies reflected similar efforts across the United States. Integration of public and not-for-profit hospital systems with each other and the residential and outpatient community remain key challenges.

Source: The Psychiatric Clinics of North America - November 10, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Joshua Berezin, Flavio Casoy, Matthew D. Erlich, Yamilette Hernandez, Thomas E. Smith Source Type: research