Category: patient flow

The U.S. recorded 1,082,549 new daily COVID-19 cases on Jan. 3, an all-time high, according to data from Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. 

Junction City, Kan.-based Geary Community Hospital will close its intensive care unit by Feb. 1 because of fiscal problems and the nursing shortage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hospitals in the Chicago area are delaying nonurgent surgeries and other procedures not risking patient safety after a plea to do so from Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois Health and Hospital Association, according to the Chicago Tribune. 

Holy Cross Health in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has temporarily closed its labor and delivery unit amid a staffing shortage, the hospital confirmed to Becker’s.

Radnor, Pa.-based Main Line Health, which serves parts of Philadelphia and its western suburbs, announced Jan. 2 it will pause all nonemergent surgeries for the next two weeks as it deals with a near-record COVID-19 surge, The Philadelphia Inquirer rep…

Tower Health closed Jennersville Hospital in West Grove, Pa., on Dec. 31. The system will shutter a second hospital by the end of January. 

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois Health and Hospital Association urged hospitals last week to delay nonurgent surgeries and other procedures not risking patient safety to prepare for a “likely” post-holiday omicron surge and shortage of sta…

COVID-19 hospitalizations — which are less sensitive to holiday-related data lags than positivity rates, case counts or deaths — are up in more than half the United States and have doubled over the past two weeks in six states and Washington, D.C.

As hospitals struggle with a critical staff shortage, several have had to permanently or temporarily halt some services.

Bristow (Okla.) Medical Center will temporarily halt services as Sherman, Texas-based Carrus Health takes over owner management of the facility, KRMG reported Dec. 29.