In the early days of COVID-19, Chip Kahn led the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH) through crisis. The thousand-plus for-profit community hospitals and health systems in FAH’s membership, which account for nearly 20% of U.S. hospitals, were juggling a variety of issues for the first time.Simultaneously, they were figuring out how to treat a novel infectious disease, stay solvent while elective surgeries and services were on hold, handle COVID-19 surges and keep up morale.In addition, they needed to balance patient care with compiling data, such as infection rates, which was necessary for the government to allocate funding. Data was also used to determine who was first to receive initial… Read More