Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Spectrum Health has 14 hospitals nearing capacity amid a surge of COVID-19 cases, CEO Tina Freese Decker said during a media briefing Nov. 11.
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Citing a significant increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations, Cleveland Clinic said it will postpone nonemergency surgeries for at least two days.
Patients who were monitored with a real-time alert system had a 16 percent lower mortality rate compared to patients who were not monitored, according to research published Nov. 11 in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Several hospitals and health systems in Illinois are beginning to delay elective surgeries amid a spike in coronavirus cases in the state.
Community Memorial Hospital in Cloquet, Minn., has halted some elective surgeries to free up beds amid a surge in hospitalizations, according to The Pine Journal.
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St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare plans to postpone elective care at four of its hospitals, according to The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Methodist Health System, Nebraska Medicine and CHI Health, all based in Omaha, Neb., have limited elective or nonurgent surgeries as COVID-19 cases rise in the state.
Sanford Health, a 46-hospital system based in Sioux Falls, S.D., will begin rescheduling elective procedures due to a spike in hospitalizations, according to The Sioux Falls Argus Leader.