Q&A
Pandemic's impact on hospital financial performance and patient care
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Dr. Michelle Morse discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospitals' financial performance and patient care. She highlights the challenges faced by hospitals, particularly those serving uninsured or underinsured populations.
- All hospitals experienced surges in inpatients and ICU patients during the pandemic
- Emergency rooms were significantly impacted
- A study showed that hospitals with higher proportions of uninsured or underinsured patients faced greater challenges
- The pandemic's impact on patient morbidity and mortality was noted, especially in hospitals serving vulnerable populations
Dr. Michelle Morse
0:52:50
I'm not privy to the individual hospital, financial data, or inner workings.
0:52:57
However, we know that every hospital during the pandemic experience, of course, a surge in in patients and ICU patients.
0:53:06
And we also know, of course, that the emergency rooms were significantly impacted.
0:53:11
We did, in the New York City health department, do an analysis looking at hospitals across the city and what changed for them in the months following the first wave of the COVID pandemic.
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And in that study, which is published and freely available online, we were able to show hospitals that had a higher proportion of patients that were uninsured or underinsured.
0:53:38
Those hospitals had challenges with a large volume of patients, and that impacted patient morbidity and mortality during the first wave of the COVID pandemic.
0:53:49
For the financial data specifically, I do not have that information for each hospital today, but I'll pass to Doctor.
0:53:57
Yavacoli in case she'd like to comment for health and it all.
Laura Iavicoli
0:54:03
I don't have anything further to add, but we can certainly get you that information.
0:54:07
I don't have it at first hand.
