Reviewed and Edited By: Joe Chow, MD, Adult Medical Director, AccessNurse Each year, flu season brings a familiar challenge for healthcare organizations: managing a sudden and sustained rise in patient demand. Despite being a predictable occurrence, these surges can still overwhelm staff capacity, disrupt patient flow, and strain operational resources. For [...]
Reviewed and Edited By: Joe Chow, MD, Adult Medical Director, AccessNurse The halfway point of the year is always a natural time to pause, reflect, and refocus. In healthcare, where the pace is fast and the stakes are high, taking stock of where we are and where we’re going is essential. [...]
Reviewed and Edited By: Joe Chow, MD, Adult Medical Director, AccessNurse As the school year begins, families shift from summer freedom into new routines filled with busy mornings, packed schedules, and, inevitably, health concerns. For healthcare providers, this season brings a predictable surge in patient phone calls—parents with questions about sick [...]
Written by: Joe Chow, MD, Adult Medical Director, AccessNurse Measles? Pull out your medical textbooks. Medical textbooks- that’s how long it’s been since we’ve seen a significant outbreak of measles dating back to the late 1980s. After the recommendation of a second dose of MMR, measles was declared “eliminated” from the [...]
Written by: Joe Chow, MD, Adult Medical Director, AccessNurse As if last season’s “tripledemic” of the flu, Covid and RSV wasn’t enough, this winter season has added a familiar virus, Norovirus, aka the “stomach flu”, to the mix. We’ve now become all too familiar with the three respiratory viruses and their coalescing [...]
Written by: Joe Chow, MD, Adult Medical Director, AccessNurse The Early Years Ask hospital CEOs or healthcare practice leaders what are some of the top issues that keep them up at night, and no doubt financial pressures, in one iteration or another, is likely to be their answer. Whether it is [...]
The CDC reports high levels of flu throughout most of the US, with flu A (H1N1 and H3N2) as the predominant strains circulating. The CDC provides a nice time-lapse map of how quickly the flu has expanded during December here. This timing is not unexpected given the prior respiratory seasons and [...]