Hospitals are cancelling surgeries and moving routine care to virtual visits to make room for coronavirus patients
Hospitals preparing for an influx of coronavirus patients are canceling some surgeries and moving routine care to virtual visits, an effort to make room for those critically ill and prevent infections as the global pandemic spreads nationwide.
A growing number of hospitals, including Boston’s Brigham & Women’s Hospital, NewYork-Presbyterian, the main facility of the University of California, San Francisco and some major systems in the hard-hit Seattle area, are starting to put off surgeries that aren’t urgent or emergencies....
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