OFFICE OF HEALTH EQUITY
AND CRISIS COORDINATION
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Spike and Surge are back!
After an extended summer break filled with new adventures for them both, they return to the show to share their news.
Joined by old friend and CHRISTUS St. Francis Cabrini Hospital CEO and president, Monte Wilson, they discuss the unintended consequences of COVID-19 for healthcare and what the future could hold.
Takeaways:
02:30 — The return of travel and the beginning of a long-postponed research project in Uganda to detect emerging zoonotic diseases and enhanced prevention and control.
07:15 — A new job for Surge in Healthcare and Life Sciences technology.
11:05 — No reason to be wary: collection of healthcare data is well protected and could lead to precision, personalized medicine.
17:34 — Monte Wilson of CHRISTUS Health discusses the challenges COVID-19 and climate change have brought to Louisiana healthcare systems.
19:56 — Consequences beyond COVID-19: Few ICU beds, nursing staff shortages and low vaccination rates have had lethal impacts for patients with diseases other than COVID-19.
25:00 — Why are vaccination rates in Louisiana so low? A deadly mix of fear, suspicion, politics and religion.
33:32 — Finding creative approaches, including technology, to address the shortage of nursing staff – a problem exacerbated not assisted by staffing agencies.
39:15 — Success through telehealth and virtual care, but how do we retain the most important and human elements of care?
42:26 — Collaboration is a differentiator.
OFFICE OF HEALTH EQUITY
AND CRISIS COORDINATION
GHC3 is now the Office of Health Equity and Crisis Coordination, a division of the Center for Global Health Innovation (CGHI). The Center for Global Health Innovation is an Atlanta-based 501(c)3 organization launched in 2019 to bring together diverse Global Health, Health Technology and Life Sciences entities to collaborate, innovate and activate solutions to enhance human health outcomes around the world. At its core, CGHI will orchestrate programs that promote cross discipline cooperation to strengthen capabilities, accelerate problem solving and respond to global health crises. The Center will continue to support its subsidiary organizations, Georgia Bio and Georgia Global Health Alliance and is standing up a permanent Global Health Crisis Coordination Center to bringing to bear the best private sector and public sector capabilities and experience in times of need.