Crisis Level of Care Guidelines
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that a surge of critically ill patients can overwhelm a health system’s ability to treat all patients in need of care. When available resources of a specific kind exceed demand for those resources, decisions must be made about who will receive them. In response to the potential of scarce resources and in accordance with guidance from the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, Keck Medicine has developed policy and standard operating procedures that will enable our Health System to respond in times of crisis. Keck Medicine’s Crisis Level of Care Guidelines are developed and