id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-283059-lq0pqmcv Schwarzkopf, Ran The Response of An Orthopedic Department and Specialty Hospital at the Epicenter of a Pandemic: The NYU Langone Health Experience 2020-04-20 .txt text/plain 1943 101 57 As part of a major academic tertiary medical center in New York City, the orthopedic department at New York University (NYU) Langone health has evolved and adapted to meet the challenges of the COVID pandemic. Among the steps taken, the department has reconfigured its staff's assignments to help both with the institution's efforts and our patients' needs, from reassigning operating room nurses to medical COVID floors to having attending surgeons cover urgent care locations. Each surgeon worked with his staff to reach out to their patients that had scheduled surgery dates 155 and discuss the current situation, answer questions and help decrease anxiety. At the graduate medical education (GME) level, NYU initially sought to minimize house staff 165 involvement with COVID patients by creating new non-teaching pulmonology and critical care 166 teams in the hospital. ./cache/cord-283059-lq0pqmcv.txt ./txt/cord-283059-lq0pqmcv.txt