“Inside the Fight to Save Houston’s Most Vulnerable” Q&A with Kirti...
SpecialtyCare is honored to be a partner of Houston Methodist Hospital, working alongside their medical teams to provide perfusion services during cardiac surgery and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support for patients including those afflicted with COVID-19. Recently, the New York…
ECMO and COVID-19 Webinar Draws Large Attendance as Healthcare Providers...
SpecialtyCare recently hosted two educational webinar opportunities for perfusionists and critical care physicians. Both sessions were focused on ECMO for patients with COVID-19 and discussed challenges, successes, and lessons learned. As the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, perfusionists and critical care physicians…
SpecialtyCare to Host Webinar for Perfusionists Regarding ECMO and Treatment of...
SpecialtyCare continues to place an important focus on sharing our published research on the role of ECMO in the management of severely ill patients with COVID-19. During this time, we are excited to share this continuing education opportunity for perfusionists…
Q&A with Awilda Rivera, Manager of the Scheduling Department at...
We sat down with Awilda Rivera, SpecialtyCare’s Manager of the Scheduling Department to learn about the critical role they play in supporting SpecialtyCare’s clinicians and the hospitals we work with, what adjustments have been made during this time, and how…
How COVID-19 Has Impacted Sterile Processing Departments: Input from the
Sterile processing has always had a uniquely important role in the hospital, all the more so now when it comes to containing the spread of harmful pathogens. The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic has changed a few things when it…
COVID-19 and Healthcare Workers: Future ACNP Talks Graduation Prospects, Work...
Lauren Bosch, a 30-year old nurse in Fayetteville, Arkansas, is an RN studying to become an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP). She currently works at Mercy Hospital in the nearby city of Rogers, where a COVID-19 unit has been set…
Life in the OR During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Clinician’s Perspective
This pandemic has us living in a dynamic and intense time, globally and in healthcare specifically. Our world is changing daily and frankly, it is quite overwhelming. The unsettling part is not knowing what will happen next or what problems…
Training in the Midst of COVID-19
It is certainly an uncertain time in our nation, and we are relying on healthcare workers more than ever to get through this. There are also those just getting started in their medical field who have been training in the…
5 Ways to Deal with Stress, Anxiety, & Fear During the COVID-19 Crisis (or...
As the world deals with the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are wrestling with stress, anxiety, and fear. We have had to make major shifts in our schedules, we are concerned about our health (and that of…