Patient Safety & Outcomes

Surgeons at Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine have performed a double lung transplant on a second COVID-19 patient.

Five of Mississippi's largest hospitals ran out of intensive care unit beds July 9 amid a major surge of COVID-19 cases in the state, reports the Jackson Free Press.

Hospital intensive care units at 56 Florida hospitals reached capacity as of July 22, according to data from the Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration. 

Unlike the initial surge of COVID-19 in the United States this spring, fewer hospitals are choosing to suspend elective surgeries despite an increase in coronavirus patients in several states. Here are organizations that have done so as of July 10,…

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a proclamation July 9 that will require hospitals in more than 100 counties to suspend elective care.

As coronavirus hospitalizations surge in South Carolina, Tidelands Health is rescheduling inpatient elective surgeries and working to increase its workforce, according to WPDE.

UnitedHealthcare will expand what insulin pumps it considers in-network after a policy change limited which devices were covered.

More than 75 percent of South Carolina's hospital beds are in use, according to a July 8 release from the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control.

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare has suspended some elective surgeries at Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center in Las Vegas to free up capacity, according to TV station KVVU. 

Hospital intensive care units at 40 Florida hospitals reached capacity as of July 9, according to data from the Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration.