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COVID Care Clinic: A Unique Way for Family Medicine to Care for the Community During the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Pandemic
| Content Provider | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| Author | Jacobson, Nathan A. Nagaraju, Darshan Miller, Jennifer M. Bernard, Matthew E. |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Abstract | The COVID-19 pandemic has presented new challenges in how Primary Care clinicians care for community patients. Our organization quickly allocated 1 of our community clinic sites into a dedicated COVID Clinic caring for the COVID positive or any patient with COVID like symptoms to minimize contact with the well patients. A prerequisite for all patients to be seen in the COVID Care Clinic was a virtual visit staffed with Advanced Practice Providers that would further determine if the patient needed to seek emergency medical care or be seen in the COVID Clinic. From March 23, 2020 through May 15, 2020, 852 patients with COVID symptoms were seen in this clinic rather than the emergency department. This article describes a collaborative effort to care for a community during the COVID-19 pandemic. This unique setting allowed us to focus an appropriate level of care to a high risk population in a safe and effective manner in the ongoing effort to flatten the epidemiological curve. |
| Related Links | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2150132720957442?download=true |
| ISSN | 21501319 |
| Volume Number | 11 |
| Journal | Journal of Primary Care & Community Health (JPC) |
| e-ISSN | 21501327 |
| DOI | 10.1177/2150132720957442 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Sage Publications CA |
| Publisher Date | 2020-10-22 |
| Publisher Place | Los Angeles |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | © The Author(s) 2020 |
| Subject Keyword | primary care pandemic community health COVID Clinic disease management access to care |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Community and Home Care |
