HCA Healthcare teams up with Google Cloud and SADA on data portal to help communities respond to COVID-19
HCA Healthcare is teaming up with Google Cloud and SADA to launch a data portal for the COVID-19 pandemic. The open data platform will help accelerate analysis and response by aggregating data on ICU bed and ventilator utilization, testing results, and total number of patient visits to America’s hospital systems. We are proud to collaborate…
COVID-19: The Lamp You Carry
As we celebrate Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday in 2020, I’ve thought about how proud she would be of HCA Healthcare’s nurses and our collective focus on advancing the practice of nursing. In fact, I’ve worked on a series of articles highlighting how many of our nursing strategic priorities follow her priorities for compassionate care. Last…
COVID-19: five nursing stories from the front lines
The world has changed, but the core of our nurses has not. Our daily lives have been upended, but our nurses stand up, show up and give patients the compassion and care they need and deserve. Read on to hear five stories from the frontlines. The World Health Organization (WHO) designated 2020 as the “Year of the…
HCA Healthcare discusses innovative efforts to expand ICU capacity
HCA Healthcare’s Dr. Michael Schlosser, National Group chief medical officer and vice president of clinical excellence and surgical services, discusses innovative modeling aimed at increasing intensive care unit (ICU) capacity during COVID-19. We’ve all seen the graph that illustrates the importance of “flattening the curve.” The graph contains two curves – a tall, sharp curve…
HCA Healthcare stands up universal masking
Jane Englebright, senior vice president and chief nurse executive for HCA Healthcare, details the determination of our organization to protect our workforce so that they, in turn, can continue to perform critical services for our patients. No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. In an email to all 280,000 HCA Healthcare colleagues last…
COVID-19: Protecting our colleagues today and tomorrow
Jane Englebright, senior vice president and chief nurse executive for HCA Healthcare, discusses efforts to protect our colleagues during COVID-19. How is our supply of N95s? The question of the availability of N95 respirators and other critical personal protective equipment (PPE) is not only on the mind of every caregiver at HCA Healthcare, it is…