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Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care is cutting pay and staff hours amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the health system confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.

New York has expanded COVID-19 diagnostic testing criteria to include all first responders, healthcare workers and essential employees even if they are asymptomatic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at a media briefing April 25.

New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are at highest risk for an inadequate supply of respiratory therapists at surge capacity, according to the latest projections from the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health's state health workforce deficit estimator.

More than half of those who were working on Feb. 1 said they have since lost a job, hours or income due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a poll from Kaiser Family Foundation. 

In April, healthcare workers at several sites protested about personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Envision Healthcare has deployed or reassigned more than 500 clinicians in six states to assist in fighting against the new coronavirus.

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.  

When healthcare organizations are operating under normal conditions, flaws in the system may go unnoticed. Radical changes in day-to-day life, on the other hand — disruptors such as the COVID-19 pandemic — reveal how well a system actually works.

NewYork-Presbyterian health system in New York City has launched the NYP COVID Support Care Fund to help employees experiencing financial hardships during the pandemic, according to an internal memo obtained by Becker's Hospital Review.

Madison-based University of Wisconsin Health has told its employees involved in direct patient care not to bring in personal protective equipment from home, according to a Wisconsin State Journal report.