Please enjoy the video the Division and Facility leaders in North Texas created to share sincere gratitude and appreciation for the work you are doing every day to care for our patients, each other, and our communities. 

https://mediaconnect.medcity.net/media/COVID-19+Gratitude/0_f8e3rt8g

Thank you for ALL you DO!

Although COVID-19 has separated us, the virus has also caused us to stand firm and grow closer together. At the heart of what we do, we strive to take care of people, both patients and employees. In an effort to reduce the hardships produced by COVID-19, The Frist Foundation has donated $1 million to support colleagues affected by the COVID-19 to the HCA Healthcare Hope Fund.

The HCA Healthcare Hope Fund is a charity that assists HCA Healthcare employees and their immediate families who are affected by financial hardship, including our own HWS team members. The HCA Healthcare Hope Fund has provided over 700 HCA Healthcare employees within the last three weeks with financial assistance to reduce the financial loss caused by COVID-19.

Click here to read more about The Frist Foundation's charitable donation and HCA's efforts to reduce the negative impact created by COVID-19.

Everyone can use a comforting friend or a word of encouragement during the pandemic. As these unprecedented times lead to increased loneliness and anxiety, the fight to overcome COVID-19 is better with a companion by your side. For healthcare workers at HCA Healthcare's Rose Medical Center, their companion just happens to be a one-year-old Labrador.

Wynn, the furry Labrador who is being trained by emergency physician Susan Ryan, is a known on-call friend within the hospital. When needed, Wynn provides comfort to staffers in a room that is prepared to decrease stress. However, before staffers are able to interact with Wynn, they must thoroughly wash their hands to help reduce any spread of COVID-19. 

Click here to read more about Wynn's impact within Rose Medical Center. 

The availability of N95 respirators and other critical personal protective equipment (PPE) has been a major area of concern during the pandemic. As hospitals around the globe begin to run low on essential equipment, HealthTrust Workforce Solutions' parent company, HCA Healthcare, reassures the public of the hospital's adequate supply and the guidelines that are being taken to preserve it's resources. 

Click here to read HCA Healthcare's blog to learn more about HCA's dedication to the highest quality patient care and the organization's priority for safety. 

Our parent company, HCA Healthcare is teaming up with Google Cloud and SADA to launch a data portal for the COVID-19 pandemic. The open data platform will help accelerate analysis and response by aggregating data on ICU bed and ventilator utilization, testing results, and total number of patient visits to America’s hospital systems. 

HCA Healthcare is proud to collaborate with Google Cloud on the announcement of the COVID-19 National Response Portal, an open data platform built and operated by SADA. Running on Google Cloud, the platform is intended to promote data-sharing about the COVID-19 pandemic and how it is spreading in an effort to help hospitals and communities prepare and respond.

“COVID-19 presents a unique and significant challenge to healthcare providers, and collaboration and coordination is more important than ever to help ensure the best possible response,” said Dr. Edmund Jackson, HCA Healthcare’s chief data officer. “While COVID-19 has driven us apart physically, we will respond to it by coming together digitally. We are proud to work alongside Google Cloud to create a platform to help address this urgent public health challenge.”

The COVID-19 National Response Portal is intended to enable healthcare providers across the country to safely share and display anonymous, aggregated metrics from hospital systems into a single platform to show a complete and real-time view of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Data can be submitted each day from hospital systems across the United States and will be focused on metrics such as:

• ICU bed supply and utilization;
• ventilator supply and utilization;
• total numbers of positive, negative, and pending COVID-19 test results;
• and total numbers of healthy patients who have been discharged.

The platform will also have the ability to leverage publicly available datasets, such as data on local shelter-in-place policies, and traffic or mobility patterns, to help shed light on how public behaviors and policies may impact the spread of COVID-19.

“Healthcare organizations need access to accurate and timely information around the country to plan for care and respond to COVID-19,” said Philip Moyer, Vice President, Industry Sales at Google Cloud. “We’re proud to team up with HCA Healthcare and SADA in the launch of this important new data resource for care providers on the front lines.”

“As healthcare providers, we are all battling the same crisis,” said Michael Wargo, vice president of emergency preparedness at HCA Healthcare. “However, we are being faced with COVID-19 at different times and levels of severity. By pooling our data into one cohesive platform, we can share best practices to better prepare communities across the country for this unprecedented pandemic.”

As a learning health system, HCA Healthcare uses data from approximately 35 million annual patient encounters to improve care through research and innovation. HCA Healthcare, which will provide statistical data from its 185 hospitals, structured in a manner to comply with HIPAA and other applicable restrictions, has invited groups representing approximately 4,000 hospitals across the country to join and share data on the platform.

HCA Healthcare, SADA and Google Cloud are in the process of sharing additional details and seeking to onboard other hospitals. The platform is expected to go live to the public next week.

Hospitals interested in learning more and submitting data should visit onboarding.nationalresponseportal.com.

The CDC has issued a recommendation for citizens to use cloth face coverings in “public settings where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain (e.g., grocery stores and pharmacies), especially in areas of significant community-based transmission.”

This is another step to help reduce the potential transmission of COVID-19, especially from people who show no symptoms.

We kindly remind members of our community to use non-medical reusable masks. Please do your part to help make sure medical grade masks stay in the hands of our healthcare professionals and first responders as they continue caring during COVID-19.

Please review the updated version of PPE Reuse Guidelines. 

• Universal Masking
• N-95 Respirator Extended Use and Limited Re-Use
• Donning and Doffing Scenarios
• PPE Re-Use Frequently Asked Questions

PPE Reuse Updates

Thank you for your continued DEDICATION to patient care!

Please review guidance on appropriate PPE selection. 

Appropriate Face Protection Combinations

COVID-19 Appropriate PPE for Patient Care Areas Summary

Thank you for all your HARD work and DEDICATION to patient care!

In continuous effort to conserve PPE, HCA no longer requires contact isolation precautions for patient who are colonized with or have history of MRSA or VRE. This directive does NOT affect active MRSA or VRE infections, patient with active drains or open wounds or patient on contact isolation with other MDR organisms.

Amended Contact Precautions

Thank you for your continued dedication to patient care!