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The president and CEO of the primary hospital in Yuma, Arizona, warned Thursday the hospital had been overrun by migrants and that it could not afford to continue providing what he said has amounted to tens of millions of dollars in unpaid medical care.

More than 7,000 unionized nurses walked off the job Monday at two of New York City’s largest hospitals after negotiations stalled over the weekend. 

A migrant from Jordan with three unenforced deportation orders under multiple identities has been arrested for allegedly raping a woman in a Paris hospital emergency room late last month.

Border crossers arriving in New York City on migrant buses sent from Texas by Gov. Greg Abbott (R) are being awarded healthcare services as well as free cellphones, among other things. 

Another state is reporting that American children are facing hospitalization because of a shortage of baby formula.

Chinese Communist Party authorities have ordered local officials in China’s northeastern Jilin province, which borders North Korea and Russia, to build nearly two dozen “makeshift hospitals” over the past month to help address Jilin’s exploding Chinese coronavirus caseload, the state-run Global Times reported on Monday.

Since 2019 more than 20 National Health Service trusts have spent £46,000 of UK taxpayers’ money on LGBT rainbow crossings.

The CEO of a major medical equipment manufacturer has said that those who refuse a jab, in his mind, should be ‘automatically considered’ to have forgone the right to COVID treatment in hospital at public expense.

The state updated its guidance to allow COVID-positive employees to continue working if their facility is “facing a staffing crisis.”

Steph Matto made $200,000 selling her farts online and ended up in the emergency room fearing she was about to die of a heart attack.

Hospitals across the country are facing “financial ruin” due to ongoing nursing shortages, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Michael J. Dowling, the President and CEO of Northwell Health, New York State’s largest health system, said that Northwell’s hospitals are at less than 10% of their overall capacity and well below where they’ve

A WHO update on the Chinese coronavirus published this weekend cited South African case data and suggested that the rate of hospitalization for omicron may be 25% lower than for delta.

Some hospitals, healthcare providers, and nursing homes would stand to lose up to a third of their workers due to Biden’s vaccine mandate.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) faces a statewide hospital crisis as 85 percent of the state’s inpatient beds and ICU beds are occupied.

The security guard who helped the taxi driver at the centre of an attempted terror bombing at Liverpool Women’s Hospital has spoken out for the first time.

Police have arrested three men under the Terrorism Act following a deadly car explosion at Liverpool Women’s Hospital, but no description of the suspects has been given beyond their sex and age. 

Merseyside Police have confirmed a fatality following a car explosion at Liverpool Women’s Hospital, with Counter-Terrorism Police now leading the investigation. 

Loud bangs have been heard and plumes of smoke seen rising outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital, with reports of a car ablaze and a bomb squad at the scene.

Two hospital systems, the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals, say they will require transplant patients to be vaccinated for the Chinese coronavirus. The news follows the story of UCHealth denying a woman a kidney transplant because she did not receive a vaccination.

A man has claimed that his 74-year-old mother was paralysed due to late treatment for a stroke because he was stuck in traffic caused by an eco-extremist protest on Britain’s busiest motorway.

The Greek Health Ministry has stated that it would not hesitate to be “ruthless” when looking for unvaccinated healthcare workers who oppose to the vaccine mandate and present fake vaccine certificates.

The Greek Ministry of Health has revealed that 5,895 suspensions have been handed out to hospital workers who are either not fully vaccinated or refused the coronavirus vaccine.

A registered nurse in San Diego, California, blasted policies requiring healthcare workers to get the vaccine in order to keep their jobs during a Board of Supervisors meeting this week, revealing she quit her job as a result of the mandate and adding that politicians are single-handedly creating a healthcare crisis.

Morgues, funeral homes, and cemeteries in Cuba are failing in almost every respect to provide adequate service to families – from coffin shortages to lack of refrigeration for bodies – the Cuban independent outlet 14 y Medio reported on Sunday, due to skyrocketing numbers of deaths on the island.

The health secretary has ordered a review of NHS guidance after it was revealed that three hospital trusts in England advised that biological male sex offenders who ‘self-identify’ as women could be admitted onto female-only wards after a risk assessment.

The health secretary has admitted that National Health Service (NHS) waiting lists could rise to 13 million in the next few months due to lockdowns and the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

The Catholic Bishops of Eritrea have denounced the state appropriation of Catholic schools and health facilities, the latest casualties of the country’s governmental overreach.

Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, faced backlash on Monday by staff members who are pushing back against the hospital’s demands that all employees must get vaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus.

Utility shortages in Texas spread to the state’s water supply as the winter storms continue. Hospitals and millions of homes do not have reliable water service.

The crisis at Los Angeles County hospitals reached unprecedented levels over the holiday weekend as patients continued to flow into emergency rooms.

The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency released a report on Wednesday addressing the ongoing threats that hackers pose to American hospitals. In September, hackers successfully hobbled the computer systems at over 250 medical facilities operated by Univeral Health Services.

Universal Health Services, a major hospital system with over 400 locations, faced a cyberattack over the weekend that shut down its internal records system. Doctors and nurses have been forced to use paper and pen to record patient records since the attack began. Cybersecurity analysts believe that the attack could be the largest medical cyberattack in the nation’s history.

Florida’s hospital bed availability has grown over the course of the last week as the state nears 500,000 cumulative cases statewide, according to data from the state’s Agency for Health Care Administration.

Hospital capacity in Florida continues to remain steady, despite the addition of over 50,000 new COVID-19 cases over the span of five days, data from the state’s Agency for Health Care Administration shows.

Cases of the Chinese coronavirus continue to rise in Florida, increasing thousands by the day and topping 360,000 cumulative cases on Monday. However, a closer look at the data shows that hospital capacity statewide has remained relatively steady over the last two weeks, despite the addition of 150,000-plus confirmed cases since early July.