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A Providence executive offers lessons for U.S. hospitals on coping with the new coronavirus

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Amy Compton-Phillips, MD, is executive vice president and chief clinical officer at Providence, a 51-hospital system that serves seven states. Providence is the largest healthcare provider in Washington state, site of the first and, to date, largest COVID-19 outbreak in the country. As of March 17, 787 cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus had been diagnosed in the state, and 48 patients had died.