Hospitals

One person is dead and a person of interest is in custody after a shooting at an Arkansas hospital Wednesday morning.

Many American hospitals are looking abroad for health care workers, saying they’re facing a dire shortage of nurses amid the slogging pandemic

“We cannot look past the strain on our health systems and substantial number of deaths,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky said.

Dr. Jason Chertoff tries to focus on the positive and why he got into the medical profession: to help people. But at the Ohio ICU where he works, morale is rapidly depleting as the unit again fills with COVID-19 patients – most of whom are unvaccinated. Chertoff says he’s tried to convince people to get their shots – meanwhile, staffing...

CVS Health raised its full-year earnings outlook on Tuesday, saying Covid vaccines and at-home tests lifted retail sales.

Hospitals around the U.S. are increasingly taking the extraordinary step of allowing nurses and other workers infected with the coronavirus to stay on the job if they have mild symptoms or none at all.

Of those admitted to hospital with omicron, 17 people had received their boosters, 74 were double vaccinated, and 27 were unvaccinated.

Medical experts agree that even if symptoms are milder, the sheer volume and spread of omicron infections still poses a threat to health care systems.

Hospital system administrators in San Diego are keeping a close eye on the East Coast where the states of New York and Massachusetts have already ordered hospitals nearing capacity to cancel non-emergency surgeries.

The health-care executive joined a growing number of executives who have expressed concern about the rise in organized crimes.

CVS said it will provide more medical care at drugstores and people’s homes to make it easier and more affordable for customers to stay healthy.

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.

Ten hospitals around Southern California have had ICUs at or over capacity for 25 weeks or more, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Three hospitals have had full ICUs for over a year.

San Diego hospital leaders are reporting they are facing staffing shortages and are having to import talent from around the country to keep up their staff to patient ratios. While San Diego’s COVID-19 case rate is decreasing, hospital leaders here are still reporting having problems maintaining the staff they need to keep their hospitals running. “We’re less likely to...

NBC 7’s Priya Sridhar spoke to a travel nurse about the tax of the coronavirus pandemic on nurses and staffing levels.

“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