COTS Media

Ohio hospitals ready for the total solar eclipse - ABC6 4/5/2024

Is Ohio prepared for a mass casualty incident? - Prognosis Ohio 4/24/2023

Central Ohio hospitals take part in mass casualty training - NBC4 4/4/2023

Ohio State Wexner Medical Center holds mass causality incident - ABC6 4/4/2023

Ohio Department of Health Press Conference: Respiratory Viruses in Children-November 15, 2022
Bruce Vanderhoff, MD, MBA, director, Ohio Department of Health; Rustin Morse, MD, chief medical officer, Nationwide Children’s Hospital; Patty Manning-Courtney, MD, chief of staff, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital; Claudia Hoyen, MD, director of infection control, University Hospitals (UH) and UH Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital

Surge Operations Call Center: Managing Capacity Through Innovation and Collaboration- Jodi Keller, Nancy Lehr, Melissa Rose, Debra A. Santarelli, Kimlyn N. Queen-Weis, Healthmanagement.org 2022

COVID-19 - Various sources March 2020 - January 2022

Deployment of a Shared Alternative Care Site During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Sherri Kovach, MS, BSN, RN, EMT; Jackie Shaffer, MHA, BSN, RN; Gregg M. Gascon, PhD; Robert E. Falcone, MD, FACS, JEMS 8/20/2020

Join the Franklin County and Columbus Medical Reserve Corps - Franklin County and Columbus Medical Reserve Corps 11/18/2020

A regional trauma organization as a coordinating body for a regional pandemic response: A brief report 
Jodi Keller, RN, Sherri Kovach, MS, RN, Gregg M. Gascon, PhD, Robert E. Falcone, MD, Am J of Disaster Med 2020

COTS Preparedness Coordination-NBC4i 1/06/2020

Preparing for the Worst - Columbus Monthly 12/2015

COTS Preparedness- Columbus Medical Association Foundation/Fall 2015 Newsletter

Central Ohio Hospitals Agree to a Diversion Plan - Janine E. Curcio, DO, and Natalie Ferretti, MD, EMSWORLD 11/2021

Noggle explains Columbus hospital transport plan - Circleville Herald 9/14/2021

Ambulance diversion program helps hospitals from being overrun with patients - NBC4 9/9/2021

As Hospitals Reach Capacity, Central Ohio Sees Summer of Citywide Diverts - WOSU 9/7/2021

Columbus ambulance diversion program activated as hospitals report ERs filled- Columbus Dispatch 1/5/2021

Collaboration: The Key to a Successful Patient Hand-off - Jamie Wilson, MBA-HCM, BSN, RN, Paramedic; Gregory Schando, DPN, MBA, RN, CCRN, CFRN, CNML, CMTE, EMTP; Ashish Panchal, MD, PhD; Sherri Kovach, MS, BSN, RN, EMT; Monica Treinish, MSN, RN; Laura Holden, MSN, RN, EMS CE-I; Vickie Graymire, MS, RN, CEN; Mark A. Huckaby, NRP, LP, Paramedic, JEMS 6/23/2020