The Washington Medical Coordination Center (WMCC) was adapted from the Disaster Medical Coordination Center (DMCC) model to place COVID-19 patients requiring acute emergency department or inpatient hospital care in an equitable manner throughout Washington State. It is designed to balance patient placement to individual or multiple hospitals with sufficient capacity in order not to strain the resources of any single hospital or small group of hospitals. While DMCCs are primarily activated in short-term acute incidents, the WMCC is an ongoing service to help manage the healthcare impact of patients requiring hospital-level care. The WMCC was created during the initial COVID outbreak as the Regional Covid-19 Coordination Center (RC3) with a focus on assisting western Washington healthcare partners but has now evolved with the pandemic to support all Washington State healthcare facilities.

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