{"id":16421,"date":"2020-07-09T08:59:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T12:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16421"},"modified":"2020-07-09T08:59:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T12:59:53","slug":"amid-surge-hospitals-hesitate-to-cancel-nonemergency-surgeries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16421","title":{"rendered":"Amid Surge, Hospitals Hesitate To Cancel Nonemergency Surgeries"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By\u00a0Samantha Young for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

Three months ago, the nation watched as COVID-19 patients overwhelmed New York City\u2019s intensive care units, forcing some of its hospitals to convert cafeterias into wards and pitch tents in parking lots.<\/p>\n

Hospitals elsewhere prepped for a similar surge: They cleared beds, stockpiled scarce protective equipment, and \u2014 voluntarily or under government orders \u2014 temporarily canceled nonemergency surgeries to save space and supplies for coronavirus patients.<\/p>\n

In most places, that surge in patients never materialized.\u00a0 Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n

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