Introduction
A common solution for managing a medical surge is the use of an Alternate Care Facility (ACF). During the COVID-19 pandemic, Colorado learned many key lessons about the strengths and opportunities of converting various types of facilities into ACFs. These lessons were used in the development and design of the Hotel2Hospital (H2H) ACF project.
Background
Team Colorado is a multidisciplinary project team exploring the potential of converting a suitable hotel into an ACF with hospital-level care (both intensive care and general medical-surgical capability) to support an extended medical surge and create additional capacity for hospitals. The H2H ACF would be operational within 2-4 weeks and operate as a “wing” of a Partner Hospital for 3-4 months. We collected our work in The Hotel2Hospital (H2H) Conversion Playbook Package. Additionally, to validate this concept, Team Colorado is converting a portion of a hotel into an operational H2H ACF.
This project was funded by the US Department of Defense (DoD) to inform changes to the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS). The H2H is a potential solution to the DoD’s scenario of an overseas conflict resulting in an acute, prolonged medical surge of 1,000 combat casualties returning to the United States per day for 100 days.
For more about this project, see our website at https://www.hotel2hospital.info/.
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