Alabama
- Huntsville (Ala.) Hospital is suspending elective surgeries that require overnight stays.
Florida
- Effective July 8, six-hospital Memorial Healthcare System in Hollywood, Fla., suspended all elective, non-urgent and nonemergency procedures.
- On July 9, Lee Health President and CEO Larry Antonucci, MD, said the four-hospital system is not suspending elective surgeries entirely, but is assessing them based on a daily review of patient volumes, according to the News-Press.
- Effective July 10, BayCare Health System is reducing the number of non-urgent surgeries performed at its Pinellas County hospitals in Florida: St. Anthony’s Hospital in St. Petersburg; Morton Plant Hospital in Clearwater; Mease Countryside Hospital in Safety Harbor; and Mease Dunedin Hospital.
- Effective July 11, HCA Healthcare West Florida Division said 11 hospitals in Hillsborough, Pasco, Hernando, Citrus, Manatee, Sarasota and Charlotte counties will delay some inpatient surgeries and procedures.
- Effective July 13, BayCare Health System is pausing non-urgent surgeries performed at Morton Plant North Bay, in Port Richey, Fla.
Mississippi
- On July 7, the Mississippi Department of Public Health said hospitals in six counties — Hinds, Rankin, Madison, Forrest, Jones and Washington — will begin limiting elective procedures, according to WLBT.
Nevada
- Effective July 9, HCA Healthcare suspended some elective surgeries at Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center in Las Vegas.
South Carolina
- Four-hospital Tidelands Health in Georgetown, S.C., is rescheduling inpatient elective surgeries.
- Effective July 6, Roper St. Francis Healthcare in Charleston, S.C., suspended elective surgeries that require overnight stays.
- Effective July 13, Conway (S.C.) Medical Center is suspending elective surgeries. The 210-bed hospital noted that the surgical suspension could be extended beyond two weeks if warranted, according to Myrtle Beach Sun News.
Texas
- Effective July 10 per a proclamation from Gov. Greg Abbott, hospitals in 105 Texas counties must suspend elective care. The state has 254 counties total.
- That makes for a total of 113 Texas counties where hospitals’ elective cases are suspended, counting the eight that were affected by executive orders Mr. Abbott issued in late June.