CLEVELAND, Ohio— MetroHealth, University Hospitals and the Cleveland Clinic, one of the top medical centers in the country, have temporarily halted scheduling new nonessential surgeries due to increases in coronavirus cases.
“We continue to see rapidly increasing inpatient volumes and patients hospitalized with COVID-19 across our Ohio hospitals,” a Cleveland Clinic spokesperson said in a statement.
Due to a rapid decline in hospital bed availability, all nonessential surgeries scheduled for Dec. 8 through Dec. 17 must be rescheduled, the clinic said, aside from Lutheran Hospital, the only hospital not a part of this plan. But the clinic and the other two hospitals that announced limitations in the amount of surgeries performed due to COVID-19, Metro Health and University Hospitals, will remain open for emergency situations.
“Essential and urgent surgeries, as well as heart, cancer, pediatric and transplantation surgeries, and outpatient surgeries not requiring a hospital bed will continue to be scheduled during this time period,” the clinic said in its statement.
And Ohio and three other states, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Indiana, are driving the most recent surge in coronavirus cases, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Ohio has reported 1,743,801 total cases of COVID-19, an increase of 7,876 cases from Dec. 6, according to the state's coronavirus dashboard.
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