8 NOVEMBER 2023IN MY OPINIONCOVID-19 impact on healthcareBy Deborah S. Baden, Director, Risk Management and Patient Safety, LifeBridge HealthDeborah Baden currently works as a Patient Safety Director, Risk Management at LifeBridge Health based in Baltimore, Maryland. She is a trained clinical nurse and has acute care experience throughout her whole career serving medical surgical department and pediatric department. Along with working in large medical center she has also worked in critical care nursing in the Airforce. What are some of the leading challenges or issues that exist within the marketplace today?The Covid pandemic cannot be overlooked in terms of the acute and sudden changes it brought about in the healthcare profession. These changes led to a number of difficulties in the field of healthcare business that had never been seen before. There were significant problems with the supplier chain, labor retention, and workplace retention. In addition, the required standards and qualifications in addressing an unknown disease, such as covid, truly offered issues of how we should construct systems to work in order to manage the pandemic while simultaneously attempting to provide standard care. All of these events turned the internal operations upside down, creating an emergency crisis in the medical care. Deborah S. Baden
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