“If Medicaid continues to allow these visits, as we hope, after the emergency is over, many of my patients can access care without the need to travel or take time from work,” said Kyle Knierim, a family physician in Colorado and associate director of Practice Transformation in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
“Good practice is always to use multiple models and multiple inputs,” said Elizabeth Carlton, an assistant professor of environmental and occupational health at the Colorado School of Public Health. “A smart state program will consult a lot of different data sources.”
Carlos Franco-Paredes, an infectious-disease expert at the University of Colorado School of Medicine who was on the call, told Xinis he was ready to review more than 1,000 pages of documents over the weekend and arrive at the jail as soon as Tuesday.
Thomas Finger is a professor of cellular and structural biology specializing in taste at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Based on accounts he’s collected from around the world, “The very peculiar thing about the covid taste loss is that it may preferentially affect sweet,” he says, meaning for some people, that’s the first taste to go — but it remains unknown why tastes would not be impacted equally.
“The problem on the provider side is that there are so many required vaccines to discuss and that it’s understandable that a vaccine that’s not routinely recommended would get overlooked or be considered a lower priority,” says Kempe, director of the Adult and Child Center for Health Outcomes Research and Delivery Science at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
“This is really a completely different approach than anything that has been tried before,” said Huntington Potter, director of the Rocky Mountain center, which is part of the University of Colorado. “It is one approach of many, and we’re hopeful. But science will tell.”
The disruption in the attachment process can add to the psychological distress of parents, according to Susan Niermeyer, a neonatologist at Children's Hospital of Colorado and a professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. "Attachment is fundamental to survival. To really thrive, babies need the interaction of a consistent caregiver. It's important not only for a child's neurodevelopment but also for the emotional health of the whole family," Niermeyer says.
At the institutions where we work, the University of Colorado improved efficiency by decreasing unnecessary admissions by 20 percent, despite a 53 percent increase in ED volume. And, Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center implemented a number of techniques to speed patient flow through the system: bedside registration, electronic dashboard that displays bed status throughout the hospital, physical expansion of the ED, and a paging protocol to notify senior leadership of impending capacity issues, writes Richard Klasco, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
