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Ammura Hernandez is an internal medicine resident and author of An Eschatological Isolation.

Are hospital CEOs responding to the realities of health care?

Ammura Hernandez, MD
Policy
February 24, 2022

On December 14th, 2021, hospital CEOs met under the guise of The Transformative CEO Healthcare Summit to brainstorm novel ideas in health care and to create “a new world ecosystem.” Themes included how to utilize medical data, how technology can transform health care and expanding at-home delivery systems of care.

Leaders in health care met just weeks before hospital admissions skyrocketed to an all-time high of Read more…

Are hospital CEOs responding to the realities of health care?

A morning code blue for a COVID patient

Ammura Hernandez, MD
Physician
July 16, 2021

An excerpt from An Eschatological Isolation.

At 12:11 p.m., the overhead speaker announced: “Code Blue, Three West.” She repeated, “Code Blue, Three West.”

Shit. I started my stopwatch and saved the patient note I was writing in the back office of Three West, the intensive care unit of a community hospital in Tampa Bay. Already wearing a sealed N95 mask, …

Read more…

A morning code blue for a COVID patient

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