hospitals

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...

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.

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.

As Yale New Haven Health reached an important milestone today, doctors and nurses know they have a long way to go

As many people beat the virus in hospitals, they still must overcome the hurdle of rehabilitation as they work to recover

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.

Facing intense surges in the need for hospital ICU beds, European nations are on a hospital building and medical worker hiring spree.

The billions of tax dollars headed for hospitals and states as part of the $2.2 trillion coronavirus response bill won’t solve the critical shortage of protective gowns, gloves and masks

Melissa Gong was completing her final semester of the nursing program at Cabrillo Community College when COVID-19 brought her studies to a halt. The facility where she was doing clinical training closed its doors to protect patients from potential exposure.

With capacity stretched thin, U.S. hospitals are rushing to find beds for a coming flood of patients, opening older closed hospitals, turning single rooms into doubles and re-purposing other medical buildings. At the same time, medical professionals in New York City are warning of the risks they are facing on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic in the United...

The need for basic supplies, masks, gloves and gowns is reaching a desperate level for some doctors, nurses and technicians fighting the COVID-19 outbreak. “The allotment of personal protection equipment for one of our hospitals…is barely enough to cover one shift at that hospital, not even a full day’s worth,” says Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.