About

The Hospital Capacity Management Consortium formed in 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hospitals and health systems were struggling to find ventilators for critical patients, personal protective equipment was in short supply and hospitals were at and over their bed capacity. Systems had to come up with effective ways to allocate appropriate resources to the most acute patients. The pandemic spotlighted a need for a more streamlined approach.

Read the official charter for the Hospital Capacity Management Consortium (HCMC) to learn more about the policies and procedures of HCMC.

READ CHARTER

MISSION

Effective management of hospital capacity is critical to patient safety, patient satisfaction, access to care, and reducing the cost of health care. The Hospital Capacity Management Consortium’s mission is to use science and collaboration to ensure patients receive acute care in the right place at the right time.

PURPOSE

The Hospital Capacity Management Consortium (HCMC) is a collaborative group of hospitals, health care systems, industry partners, and other stakeholders with an interest in improving hospital capacity management. Through innovation, cooperation, and academic inquiry, HCMC strives to improve the efficiency of acute care capacity management so that all patients are safely and efficiently able to receive acute care in the best location possible.

HISTORY

2019

— Dr. Parekh, Jim Scheulen and Dr. Fogerty had an idea!

2020

— HCMC is formed.

2021

— HCMC hosted its first Forum.

2022

— HCMC held its first Symposium.

2023

— HCMC published its first paper.

2024

— HCMC became a PMG of the AHA.

Leadership

Heidi High MBA, BSN, NE-BC, FACHEHCMC President
Executive Director Capacity Management, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Robert Fogerty MD, MPH, SFHM HCMC Past President
Senior Medical Director, Clinical Leadership, Associate Clinical Professor, General Internal Medicine, Yale New Haven Hospital

Jim Scheulen MBA, PA HCMC Benchmarking Committee Chair
HCMC Past President
Retired Chief Administrative Officer, Emergency Medicine and Capacity Management, Johns Hopkins Medicine

Vikas Parekh, MD HCMC Research and Publication Committee Chair
HCMC Past President
Professor of Internal Medicine, Medical School Associate Chief Medical Officer, UM Health, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan