Patient Safety & Outcomes

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.

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.

Nonwhite and Hispanic people under age 65 are dying from COVID-19 more often than white Americans in the same age group, according to the new CDC data cited by STAT. 

About 16.5 percent of the more than 6,000 intensive care unit beds at Florida hospitals are available as of July 24, and there are 9,225 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in the state, according to data from the Florida Agency for…

Georgia officials are working to reactivate a temporary field hospital at Atlanta's Georgia World Congress Center after hospital chiefs in the state urged Gov. Brian Kemp to come up with more hospital beds so their organizations can maintain elective surgeries,…