I am an urgent care physician. Our volume has been dramatically lower. Two of our eight sites have already closed for urgent care services. The six that remain are very, very slow. My site saw 5 patients yesterday. We typically see 30-40 on a Monday. I'll be very surprised if they don't close more sites. Some of our providers are starting to have trouble getting their scheduled hours. Some are doing telemed services instead.
The hospital is in the process of getting us all hospital privileges so that when inpatient volume gets crazy (it's not far from it now - the peak is expected to be in about 2 weeks), they will redeploy us into the hospital to lend support and do some of the low level stuff to free up the hospitalists to handle the more serious stuff. I'm definitely nervous about that as I haven't done inpatient work for 20 years. I don't know the first thing about hospital work at this point.
The hospital is in the process of getting us all hospital privileges so that when inpatient volume gets crazy (it's not far from it now - the peak is expected to be in about 2 weeks), they will redeploy us into the hospital to lend support and do some of the low level stuff to free up the hospitalists to handle the more serious stuff. I'm definitely nervous about that as I haven't done inpatient work for 20 years. I don't know the first thing about hospital work at this point.
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