{"id":7734,"date":"2020-06-22T12:11:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T19:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7734"},"modified":"2021-03-26T12:11:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T19:11:56","slug":"western-washington-state-covid-19-experience-keys-to-flattening-the-curve-and-effective-health-system-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/22\/western-washington-state-covid-19-experience-keys-to-flattening-the-curve-and-effective-health-system-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Washington State COVID-19 Experience: Keys to Flattening the Curve and Effective Health System Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Western<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0WA COVID-19 Expert Panel<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0seeks to identify factors contributing to the effective health system disaster response in western\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Washington State<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Six\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">key themes were identified<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">: (1)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Early\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">communication and coordination among stakeholders;\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(2) Regional\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">coordination of the healthcare system response;\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(3) Rapid\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">development and access to viral testing;\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(4) Proactive\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">management of long-term care &amp; skilled nursing facilities;\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(5) Proactive\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">management of vulnerable populations;\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(6) E<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ffective physical distancing in the community.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Eleven\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">recommendations were provided to support the healthcare system disaster response in managing future outbreaks.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Mitchell et al. (June 8, 2020). Western Washington State COVID-19 Experience: Keys to Flattening the Curve and Effective Health System Response. Journal of the American College of Surgeons.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jamcollsurg.2020.06.006\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jamcollsurg.2020.06.006<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Western\u00a0WA COVID-19 Expert Panel\u00a0seeks to identify factors contributing to the effective health system disaster response in western\u00a0Washington State.\u00a0Six\u00a0key themes were identified: (1)\u00a0Early\u00a0communication and coordination among stakeholders;\u00a0(2) Regional\u00a0coordination of the healthcare system response;\u00a0(3) Rapid\u00a0development and access to viral testing;\u00a0(4) Proactive\u00a0management of long-term care &amp; skilled nursing facilities;\u00a0(5) Proactive\u00a0management of vulnerable populations;\u00a0(6) Effective physical distancing in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/22\/western-washington-state-covid-19-experience-keys-to-flattening-the-curve-and-effective-health-system-response\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-7734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7735,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7734\/revisions\/7735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7734"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}