Mgma Small Talk

In this episode of the MGMA Insights podcast, we continue a series focused on COVID-19 and how it’s impacting healthcare professionals and their patients. Throughout this series, we’ll share conversations with experts regarding challenges such as staffing, communication, emergency preparedness, patient education, advocacy and more. You can keep up with the latest by visiting the MGMA COVID-19 Action Center at MGMA.com/covid. Our guest is Peter Valenzuela, MD, MBA, chief medical officer, Sutter Medical Group of the Redwoods. Here are a handful of highlights from his interview: - (6:54) “We actually have calls every morning at 7 a.m. with the local team, and it includes our managers and our physician leaders. We talk about whether there's any new cases, whether we have any PPE equipment or use that we've had, and then whether there's anybody out on furloughs or out on leave secondary to this COVID-19 situation. I think it's keeping everybody on the same level as far as what we're doing and what our plans