Hospitals

Hospitals across Massachusetts are critically close to or even above capacity – due to staffing shortages, an uptick in COVID-19 cases and a significant increase in the number of people needing in-patient care. “It can get bad enough at times that even the ambulance has to wait to drop a patient off,” said UMass Memorial Health President and CEO Dr….

As hospitals deal with a shortage of beds, elective procedures are being canceled.

New Hampshire has been averaging nearly 1,000 new COVID-19 infections per day in recent weeks. And as of Tuesday, 350 people were hospitalized, surpassing the record set last winter and contributing to longer wait times in emergency departments and delays in treatment for other conditions. Gov. Chris Sununu announced three steps he is taking in an effort to address the…

Boston doctors are sounding the alarm over an expected surge in COVID cases as hospitals across Massachusetts struggle with bed and staffing shortages. “Our hospitals are full. All hospitals are full,” Dr. Shira Doron of Tufts Medical Center said Tuesday on NBC10 Boston’s weekly “COVID Q&A” series. “Hospitals are already doing really terrible things like deferring and canceling elective...

Any Massachusetts hospitals facing limited capacity will soon be required to reduce nonessential procedures.

Gov. Chris Sununu said New Hampshire is seeing the highest level of COVID-19 cases at any point in the pandemic.

Starting next week, any Massachusetts hospital or hospital system with limited capacity will have to reduce previously scheduled procedures deemed non-essential and non-urgent, the Baker administration announced Tuesday. The guidance, which goes into effect Monday, is meant to preserve hospital capacity amid staffing shortages amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. “The current strain on hospital capacity is due to longer than…

Three top Boston doctors talk about Pfizer’s COVID vaccine for 12-15 year-olds, a post-holiday surge and symptoms on NBC10 Boston’s weekly “COVID Q&A” series.

Americans will soon be protected from many unexpected medical bills, thanks to a new law that goes into effect Jan. 1.

Walter Reed is a sprawling military hospital which is used by presidents of the United States for treatment. The naval base there is on lockdown.

Bill Clinton has returned to his home in New York to continue recovering from an infection that left him in treatment for six days at a Southern California hospital.

Patient advocates and some state governments say hospitals must do more to help patients deal with medical bills before the debt winds up in collections.

Massachusetts hospitals are preparing to fire hundreds of employees who fail to comply with COVID-19 vaccination requirements designed to protect patient safety. Officials at hospitals across the state told The Boston Globe they don’t expect the number of employees who are fired because of vaccine mandates to result in cuts to patient services, but they are stepping up recruitment...

“Throughout this pandemic, even in the worst of times, we were not seeing this many younger people under 50 going into our hospitals,” Ohio Gov. DeWine said.

While there has been a decline in births in the U.S. during the pandemic, a new report suggests the drop may have turned a corner last March as births started rebounding

Hospitals and clinics are near a breaking point yet again, and COVID-19 isn’t the only factor. There are more and more people landing in urgent and emergency care and not enough medical staff to handle it, experts at major hospitals across Massachusetts said. “It’s a tough situation for all of us,” said Dr. Peter Dunn, vice-president of procedural services...

Hospitals in Massachusetts say that they’re nearing capacity, and COVID isn’t the only issue.

Covid case counts in the U.S. are showing signs of easing off their latest highs but remain elevated as the country heads into the fall season.

China’s health-care sector will probably be the next to fall under scrutiny, analysts warn, as the country’s regulators crack down on everything from tech to education this year.

Southern Lousiana’s hospitals are packed with patients from the latest coronavirus surge.