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Futuro Health is offering a pandemic-readiness training course to licensed vocational nurses and licensed practical nurses. 

More than 15,000 hotels have signed up to provide temporary housing for emergency and healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, the American Hotel and Lodging Association announced.

About 1,500 employees of Southfield, Mich.-based Beaumont Health are staying home due to their symptoms consistent with COVID-19, the health system confirmed to Becker's April 7.

Hospitals on Long Island in New York are adjusting staff in preparation for the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Newsday.

More than 700 employees of Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System have tested positive for COVID-19, the health system confirmed to Becker's.

Envision Healthcare, one of the nation's largest provider groups, has started to deploy clinicians to New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System to assist in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hospital employees are among the confirmed cases of COVID-19. Here are U.S. hospitals or other healthcare sites where employees have tested positive during the pandemic.  

About 72 percent of Americans say their life has been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic in a new survey from Kaiser Family Foundation, up 32 percentage points from just two weeks ago.

The University of California will not lay off career employees for reasons related to COVID-19 through at least the fiscal year ending on June 30, the university announced. 

Healthcare lost 43,000 jobs in March, with job losses primarily in ambulatory healthcare services, according to the latest jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.