Hospitals

As the first wave of coronavirus cases peaked in the Northeast U.S. this spring, eight healthcare workers from New York City and across the country shared their intimate experiences fighting the virus — through exhaustion, grief and fear.

Jordan Kudlak works as a nurse in a Covid-19 unit in South Carolina and has seen firsthand how coronavirus can be serious—or fatal—for both the old and young. And now that she has contracted the virus herself, she has personally experienced how easy the virus is to catch, even if you take every precaution.

As coronavirus cases spike in Texas, an emergency room physician in Houston said starting her shift every day is like going to war. Dr. Gina Blocker said her hospital is seeing young people with serious symptoms as well as a disproportionate number of patients of color.

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Dr. Murtaza Akhter, an emergency room physician in Arizona, and Dr. Margaret J. Gorensek, an infectious disease specialist in Florida, joined LX News to describe the daily juggling act at their hospitals to care for a surge of new patients as coronavirus cases spike in their states.

Months into battling Covid-19, doctors from across the globe are still struggling to come up with a standard of care and core protocols for treating patients. The New York Times interviews doctors about how they are adjusting their treatments to this novel virus.

At St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Queens, New York, doctors, nurses and morgue workers describe the toll the coronavirus crisis has taken on their institution – and on each of them personally. The New York Times went inside the hospital 48 days after its first COVID-19 case.

The coronavirus pandemic has prompted many pregnant women to consider home births to avoid hospitals and other expectant moms ill with COVID-19 in the labor and delivery ward. Indeed, a startling analysis of universal test results at two New York City hospitals last month found about 13% of women who showed up to have a baby were coronavirus positive, even though they felt...

Hospitals are on the road to recovery as they shift from treating only Coronavirus patients to clearing a backlog of people who had to postpone their elective surgeries. Hospitals on Long Island can resume those duties now and one hospital system has 10,000 people waiting for surgery. Greg Cergol reports.

Doctors, nurses and other medical staffers are being told to step back from their jobs as hospitals across the country grapple with mounting financial losses due to the pandemic.

Hospitals across the United States are facing financial ruin.

As coronavirus spreads across rural America, many struggling hospitals are seeing a massive loss of revenue after they were forced to cancel profitable elective procedures.

Since the coronavirus pandemic first emerged in China, more than a quarter of a million people around the world have died from COVID-19 — many without a family member by their side to help them through their final moments. With most hospitals banning visits, the infectious nature of the virus has made it impossible for many families to be at the...

After months of delays, hospitals are starting to schedule patients for their medical procedures. Starting in early May, patients in about 20 states are getting rebooked for non-emergency procedures like hip and knee replacements, tumor removals and organ transplants, which had been delayed until further notice.

Law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and the U.K. are citing an increase in “malicious cyber campaigns” targeting hospitals, medical institutions and others involved in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A nurse at Hoboken University Medical Center, who has faced as many as 80 coronavirus patients in one day, is encouraged after numbers have decreased dramatically, though still worries about a second wave coming. NBC New York’s Brian Thompson reports.

Some hospitals are opening food pantries or makeshift grocery stores inside their facilities to help staff who don’t have time, don’t want to or can’t afford to go to a grocery store during the coronavirus pandemic.

The bill includes $250 billion in help for small businesses and $100 billion for hospitals.

The Trump administration started sending out initial payments to hospitals and physicians Friday, marking the first tranche of $100 billion in relief funding for health systems and providers passed by Congress as part of  the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security act.  The money will help make up for lost revenue and increased costs health systems are facing due...

This interactive chart uses data provided by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation to predict how the coronavirus will affect healthcare resources in different states.

President Donald Trump on Monday disputed the veracity of a federal survey that found hospitals faced severe shortages of coronavirus test supplies, questioning whether its conclusions were skewed by politics.

Initial testing will prioritize workers who have symptoms and those who have been caring for COVID-19 patients, then to those who have shown no symptoms but have family members at home who tested positive