Dr. Marc Napp – Heroes of Healthcare Podcast

COVID-19, Panel interviews, Pediatrics, Vaccines

Episode 23 part 2: Cycle of Patient Care During a COVID Surge

COVID causes tremendous downstream impact within a healthcare system.

It means that healthcare professionals are working 24/7 to care for all the patients who come in. It means that treatment of other patients — for example, those who are chronically ill or who need to get a CT scan — gets pushed back so that COVID patients can be treated.

In short, the effects of the COVID pandemic go way beyond COVID-infected patients.

In part 2 of this 2-part series, we continue our panel discussion with six distinguished physicians from Memorial Healthcare System.

Our panel includes:

Dr. Marc Napp – Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Randy Katz – Medical Director, Emergency Services, Memorial Regional Hospital
Dr. Jose Fernandez-Duarte – Medical Director, TeamHealth Hospitalists
Dr. Ari Sareli – Chief, Critical Care Medicine, Chief Physician Executive, Memorial Physician Group
Dr. Paula Eckardt – Chief, Memorial Division of Infectious Disease
Dr. Tammy Tucker – PsyD (Behavioral Health)

We discuss:

The delta variant
Whether FDA approval will improve vaccination rates
How to protect unvaccinated children

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COVID-19, Panel interviews, Vaccines

Episode 23 part 1: Cycle of Patient Care During a COVID Surge

On an average day, there are usually 1,400 beds in operation across the Memorial Healthcare System in Hollywood, Florida. During the first wave of COVID last summer, the hospital exceeded that capacity with 1,600 patients.

Florida is now in the midst of another COVID wave. This time patients are younger, and they are almost entirely unvaccinated — and at the peak of the wave, there were 1,700 patients in the hospital system.

In part 1 of this 2-part series, we’re joined by six distinguished physicians from Memorial Healthcare System to discuss what the treatment cycle of a COVID patient looks like today.

Our panel includes:

Dr. Marc Napp – Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Randy Katz – Medical Director, Emergency Services, Memorial Regional Hospital
Dr. Jose Fernandez-Duarte – Medical Director, TeamHealth Hospitalists
Dr. Ari Sareli – Chief, Critical Care Medicine, Chief Physician Executive, Memorial Physician Group
Dr. Paula Eckardt – Chief, Memorial Division of Infectious Disease
Dr. Tammy Tucker – PsyD (Behavioral Health)

We discuss:

How the current COVID wave is different from the first wave
The different phases of treatment
The importance of getting the vaccine

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COVID-19, Emergency preparedness/management/services

Episode 02: COVID-19, NYC: Lessons in Preparedness

In healthcare, things don’t always go as planned.

So, it’s important to talk about the things no one talks about.

And COVID-19 is proof.

In our latest episode, Dr. Marc Napp, Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs & Deputy Chief Medical Officer at Mount Sinai Health System, explains how healthcare leaders prepare for the most unlikely events through emergency management.

Marc discusses:

The events that led to his focus on emergency management
How he and other healthcare leaders approached the pandemic
The tension between civic responsibility and civil liberties in the COVID era

Heroes of Healthcare is hosted by Ted Weyn. To hear this interview and more like it, subscribe to Heroes of Healthcare on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.