Twelve Lessons on Hospital Leadership During COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Coronavirus pandemic has been announced by World Health Organization Director General on March 11th, 2020.<br />Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences, was one the first referral hospitals<br />in the capital city of Tehran, I.R.Iran that entered the crisis and started a serious battle with the disease. The<br />hospital had to change many routine operations to cope with the situation and during this journey, we used previously<br />leadership principles and reached to some new experiences. As this is probably the most severe health-related crisis in<br />Iran in the past 100 years, we gathered our lessons learned in the first fifty days of epidemic from the leadership point<br />of view to share those with all colleagues worldwide. We know that leadership is of pivotal role in such a massive crisis<br />and focused leadership experiences can help health care providers to manage the crisis while we are in the middle of it.<br />Level of evidence: IV-V