Case Study: Rural Hospital Shifts Operations In Anticipation Of Covid-19 Surge - King鈥檚 Daughters Medical Center

Members in Action Case Study: Rural Hospital Shifts Operations In Anticipation Of Covid-19 Surge - King鈥檚 Daughters Medical Center, Brookhaven, Miss.

King鈥檚 Daughters Medical Center (KDMC) is implementing a variety of strategic and operational shifts in anticipation of a surge of COVID-19 patients in April. Though the 99-bed hospital is in a rural community, it expects to be negatively affected by higher rates of the coronavirus from New Orleans, which is two hours south.

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