Challenges about Reorganizing a Hospital to Respond to the Covid-19 Outbreak: Experience from the University Hospital of Naples “Federico II”, Italy”

Abstract

The 2020 pandemic has taken a toll on governments, hospitals and healthcare workers. The newly established Task Force of the University Hospital has sought to answer this huge challenge by applying a Hospital Incident Management System (HIMS). Given the lack of knowledge of this new pandemic, the System was created on the basis of previous organizational and structural models present in the literature and adapted to the Covid-19 pandemic. The response plan has included: -