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Leadership
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Our department has been working furiously over the past weeks and months to be optimally positioned for this public health crisis. The following teams continue to anticipate future challenges and iterate new ideas to ensure MGH's emergency room functions at its best.
The list below is provided to enable you to reach out to any of your colleagues on these teams should you have any questions, concerns, ideas, or feedback. Above all, we want to make sure no stone has been left unturned in our preparation and that every idea has been considered to help our department be optimally positioned.
Please do not hesitate to reach out. As this is a public-facing website, contact information is not provided but can be readily obtained through Medevision.
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MGH Hospital-wide COVID19 Working Groups
MGH Hospital COVID Incident ORG Chart
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Key Contacts in Leaders
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Chief of Emergency Medicine
Kyle Vojdani
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ED Protected Code Blue Team
Ruchi Mohindra, Angela Marrocco
Protocolization of high-risk procedures and resuscitation, as well as special circumstances such as pediatric respiratory distress, mechanical ventilation, etc.
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ED Pandemic Planning Working Group
Adil Shamji, David Rosenstein, David Phillips, Tom Klosek, Angela Marrocco, Nadia Incardona, Natalie Mamen
Pandemic planning and oversight including communication (website), special patients (homeless, addiction, elderly, immigrant), department reorganization
Ethics and Palliative Care in ED
Nadia Incardona
Ethical frameworks and decision-making considerations for the ED, including approaches to palliative care. Additional work related to asthma/COPD management in an era of no NIVM.
Homeless, Addictions and Mental Health Transition
Kate Lazier
Planning and process mapping to ensure rapid, compassionate and appropriate disposition of above-noted populations.
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Immigrant and Refugees
Adam Kaufman
Liaison with community stakeholders to address unique needs and services such as translation.
ED Care of COVID19
David Ng
Investigation, management and acute care considerations of patients with COVID19 in the emergency department.
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Nursing Home and Long-term Care
Natalie Mamen, Nadia Incardona, Adil Shamji
Outreach, support and coordination with geriatric services and facilities housing elderly patients to ensure appropriate disposition-planning and goals of care.
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ED Physician Wellness Care
Adil Shamji, Ruchi Mohindra, Monica Kapoor, Mazen Jazi, Lingli Ma, Megan Reynolds, Muneesh Jha, Angela Marrocco
Focused on providing support and resources to the teams charged with providing a clinical COVID response to ensure resilience and physical and mental wellbeing.
Information Technology
David Rosenstein
Efforts to support virtual ED visits (including OTN), e-charting, staff call tracking, etc.
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Personal Protective Equipment and Finances
Angela Marrocco
Departmental steward of scarce resources including funds and PPE.
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