The rescheduling affects patients who had a nonelective procedure scheduled for Thursday and Friday this week. The hospital will still perform all urgent and same-day procedures.
Hospital officials will reevaluate the decision to suspend surgeries to determine if more surgeries will need to be postponed on additional days.
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