Plan shows how to pry 'shutters' off unused hospitals: AHRQ outlines steps to re-opening closed facilities during surge capacity.(Hospitals)

Publication: Medicine & Health

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When a disaster hits a community, how should officials deal with the inevitable public health crisis accompanying the catastrophe? Hospitals could expand their capacities--and they can most easily accomplish this by getting "shuttered" hospitals back up and running.

But opening up a shuttered facility requires more than just a crowbar to pry the boards off the windows. Recent events spurred the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality to compile a report outlining comprehensive strategies for dealing with disasters and the requisite surge...

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