Hospitals

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

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.

Kentucky and Texas have joined a growing list of states that have surpassed their record for hospitalized coronavirus patients

The recent rise in COVID-19 cases is creating a challenge for some vendors that sell home oxygen, who are moving equipment around to get it to high-demand hospitals in areas like California.

Oregon’s governor says she will deploy up to 1,500 National Guard troops to hospitals around the state to support healthcare workers as COVID-19 surges amid the rapid spread of the Delta variant.

Anyone who wants to visit a hospital, skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility in California will be required to show proof of full vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test.

The rise of COVID-19 cases is bringing back a trend we saw early in the pandemic: temporary business closures because of staff being exposed to the coronavirus.
NBC 7’s Amber Frias has more.

The rise of COVID-19 cases is bringing back a trend we saw early in the pandemic: temporary business closures because of staff being exposed to the coronavirus. The latest example of it is the Chula Vista Animal Care Facility.

COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths are all surging in Florida as the delta variant sweeps through the state that has resisted mask and vaccine mandates. Mary Mayhew, president and CEO of the Florida Hospital Association, describes how the variant is “burning through the unvaccinated population” and making previously healthy young people severely ill.

Just one month ago, COVID-19 wards at hospitals across San Diego were empty, doctors and nurses were finally able to take a breath and many of them were hopeful the worst of the pandemic was behind them. But numbers began creeping up again.

Hospital leaders in San Diego are concerned they may not have enough staff to help with the rise in COVID-19 cases, reports NBC 7’s Amber Frias

Novartis CEO Vasant Narasimhan told CNBC there are now lower rates of diagnoses due to reduced hospital visits during the coronavirus pandemic.