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Hospitals across the country have suffered an economic toll from the elimination of nonemergency care. Now with the rate of new Covid-19 cases dropping, they are planning to restart regular patient care. But in Bain & Company’s latest survey of frontline healthcare workers and other clinicians, nearly 60% report their organizations are not yet equipped to manage the return to elective care. The two most commonly cited barriers to successfully managing the return to elective care were a lack of provider and patient testing and an insufficient supply of personal protective equipment. Management of patient volume and social-distancing policies were also cited as obstacles to resuming elective procedures.
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The global Covid-19 pandemic has extracted a terrible human toll and spurred sweeping changes in the world economy. Across industries, executives have begun reassessing their strategies and repositioning their companies to thrive now and in the world beyond coronavirus.