Georgia health officials struck a deal with Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare to add at least 62 intensive care and surgical beds to the state's healthcare infrastructure.
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Over the past decade, 78 rural hospitals across the U.S. have ended inpatient care but continued to provide other types of healthcare services, according to the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research.
Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic this fall will be a huge challenge for college health centers, many of which have a history of care delays or deficiencies, according to an investigative report by The Washington Post.
As COVID-19 cases rise across the country, it is important that hospitals proactively manage care for patients without COVID-19, five health experts wrote in an article for Harvard Business Review.
Texas reported a .05 percent decrease in COVID-19 hospitalizations July 13, marking the first decline since June 28, according to state health department data.
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Nurses and local officials are speaking out against New York City-based Montefiore Health System's decision to scale back services at Mount Vernon (N.Y.) Hospital, according to Rockland/Westchester Journal News.
Florida currently has the most COVID-19 patients hospitalized, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
Of states reporting relevant data, California currently has the most COVID-19 patients in intensive care, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
Medical City Healthcare will suspend elective surgeries to prepare for a surge in COVID-19 patients, a spokesperson confirmed to Becker's.
Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare temporarily closed its emergency center in El Paso, Texas, and said it plans to divert patients and move to other facilities within the health system, a spokesperson confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.