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.
Hospitals in Nigeria are rejecting dying patients over fears of spreading the Chinese coronavirus, an investigation by Premium Times found on Friday.
California’s hospitals are in financial trouble after they prepared for a coronavirus onslaught that never came.
A Brooklyn field hospital closed without seeing any patients, city officials confirmed this week.
President Trump’s border controls have greatly reduced the strain that illegal immigration once put on American hospitals near the United States-Mexico border.
The number of coronavirus hospitalizations in Georgia is dropping, Gov. Brian Kemp (R) announced on Tuesday.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said on Wednesday that the majority of recent coronavirus hospitalizations in New York appear to involve patients who were remaining home.
First lady Melania Trump gave 150 boxed lunches to a children’s hospital in Maryland this week to help support those impacted by the coronavirus.
Half of the staff at a department of the Helsingborg hospital have tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus as Sweden reports over 2,500 deaths across the country.
Coronavirus patients at a Brooklyn nursing home were denied admission to both of the federal medical facilities established in New York.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) elaborated on his plans to “start easing out” restrictions in his state on May 1 by stating that hospitals will be allowed to start doing some procedures and
On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Cavuto Live,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) stated that if personal protective equipment isn’t a worry, hospitals should be allowed to do things like elective surgeries and procedures, and then the government can
Two donors are making generous donations to healthcare workers in Charleston, South Carolina, during the coronavirus pandemic.
Beaumont Wayne Hospital in Wayne, Michigan, has temporarily closed its doors during the coronavirus pandemic, drawing ire from the city’s mayor.
Four decades after the rock band Journey introduced the song “Don’t Stop Believin'” to a place called South Detroit, Detroit’s hospitals are now playing the song for coronavirus patients who are on the mend.
More than 20 police officers with specialised crowd control training will be stationed at hospitals in the Swedish capital in case of unrest if intensive care beds run out.
The number of new hospitalizations in New York plummeted on Thursday to the lowest since the coronavirus crisis began in the state.
The INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is temporarily closing most of its facility due to a mass decline in patients, it confirmed on Wednesday.
U.S. hospitals are reportedly silencing healthcare employees who publicize their concerns about their working conditions amid the coronavirus outbreak by threatening to fire them.
The United States, as a whole, is roughly two weeks away from reaching the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, but the peaks for individual states will vary, with most occurring over the next four weeks, according to projections from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
A New York City coffee shop is giving back to local hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic as the number of patients continues to surge in the city.
The city of Chicago is turning McCormick Place convention center into a 3,000-bed makeshift hospital to treat coronavirus patients.
Detroit’s top law enforcement officer, James Craig, tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus, according to an announcement Friday afternoon.
A draft letter by one of southeast Michigan’s major hospital systems was leaked online Thursday revealing the hospital’s policy to prioritize care for “patients who have the best chance of getting better” in the event of a shortage due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The chief executive of a body which represents hospitals’ bosses has said that London facilities are facing a “continuous tsunami” of coronavirus patients, and said that the city’s hospitals could be overwhelmed in “days”.
A senior scientist from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said the decision to lock down the UK and efforts to increase capacity at intensive care units means that the NHS may be able to cope with the worst part of the pandemic.
Members of the British Army’s 101 Logistic Brigade have begun delivering consignments of personal protection equipment for medical staff to hospitals after Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered a strict lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic.
The Navy is deploying two hospital ships to treat non-coronavirus patients to help alleviate a potential strain on civilian hospitals.
A report has claimed that Lewisham and Greenwich has become the first London NHS trust to turn away coronavirus patients, sending them on to other hospitals as they struggle to keep up with incoming cases.
Hospital and health care facilities are warning that $100 billion is needed to protect workers and coronavirus patients.
The Pentagon said it was deploying its two hospital ships at the direction of the president to assist with the nation’s coronavirus response.
Maria Ryan, head of a rural hospital, said her biggest fear with the coronavirus outbreak is loss of staff due to infection.
The nation could face a severe hospital bed shortage if it reaches the worst-case scenario with coronavirus. The Pentagon can help.
Danbury Hospital in Connecticut said Democrat Gov. Ned Lamont’s statement that it is “already at capacity” is not true.
Thieves in Germany raided hospitals in Cologne, stealing medical face masks from clinics throughout the city to re-sell on the black market, as the country grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Director-General of the Swedish National Board of Health has confirmed the country is looking into triage measures that could prioritise care for those most likely to survive serious coronavirus infection.
An Italian mayor has fallen under scrutiny for stating that patients who cannot be treated for the coronavirus “are left to die.” A doctor at a hospital in Italy’s northern region, however, has stated that “you probably don’t proceed” with patients “between 80 and 95” with serious breathing difficulties.
