K.C. Docs Headed to NYC to Help

Called to action by a Kansas City health-care non-profit, a team of a dozen medical providers is on its way to New York, the nation’s epicenter in the fight to save lives of COVID-19 patients.

Olathe-based Heart to Heart International and its affiliated Docs Who Care initiative issued the call recently for physicians who have worked with its overseas health-care delivery. 

Gary Morsch, an emergency medicine physician and founder of Docs Who Care, one of the largest ER staffing companies in the Midwest, is behind the initiative. His goal in founding the task force was to address unprecedented demands being placed on more than 100 hospitals his group serves. Morsch has been deployed as has been former Kansas governor Jeff Colyer, a physician and clinical associate professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center.

The needs are changing daily as the pandemic grows, task force officials say. The greatest need right now is for doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and respiratory therapists. Eventually, every type of health professional will be needed, they say.

In addition to New York, volunteers are already working in the Kansas City area. Those who remain here can choose to serve  certain days, and those heading out-of-state are likely to spend at least a week, possibly two, in that effort.

For more information, visit the task force’s site at www.covidcareforce.org