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Nurses at two of New York City’s largest hospitals went on strike Monday, potentially leading to disruptions in care around emergency room visits and childbirth, after lengthy weekend negotiations over a new contract stalled. Frustrated nurses chanted and waved signs outside Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan demanding higher wages. The walkout involves...

Coronavirus-related hospital admissions are climbing again in the United States.

Local hospitals are seeing a strain on capacity and resources. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports.

Emergency rooms in Virginia said they are experiencing an unprecedented surge in patient volumes due to a spike in illnesses after the Thanksgiving holiday. News4’s Dominique Moody reports.

Emergency rooms in Virginia are experiencing an unprecedented surge in patient volumes due to a spike in illnesses after the Thanksgiving holiday, hospital officials said.

Doctors are urging parents to watch for symptoms of the respiratory infection, especially in children under 5 years old, News4’s Doreen Gentzler reports.

As cold and flu season ramps up, Children’s National Hospital in D.C. says it’s nearing capacity — and doesn’t expect that to change soon.

As cold and flu season ramps up, Children’s National Hospital in D.C. says it’s nearing capacity and expects to remain that way. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports.

News4s Pat Lawson Muse speaks with the lead author of a Harvard study on hospital flooding preparedness.

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

Adventist HealthCare Fort Washington Medical Center has announced it is relocating to Prince George’s County, Maryland, instead of expanding its current location.

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...

With COVID-19 cases spiking in Virginia, more hospitals have moved into what’s called “crisis standards of care,” which allows them to extend resources and reduce the impact of supply or physician shortages. In Fredericksburg, Mary Washington Hospital transformed its parking garage into a field hospital. News4’s Cory Smith got an inside look before the first patients arrived.

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.

Gov. Ralph Northam has issued a limited emergency order to help hospitals and other health providers address Virginia’s surging number of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations

There are warnings across the region as omicron spreads rapidly. One hospital system says it’s dealing with unprecedented ICU admissions. News4’s Aimee Cho reports on the impact and spoke with a D.C. family that called 911 only to be told all hospitals were full.

University of Maryland Capital Region Health says it’s moving three Prince George’s health centers to crisis standards of care amid rising COVID-19 cases and staffing shortages. UM Capital Region Medical Center, UM Bowie Health Center and the Emergency Department at UM Laurel Medical Center declared a hospital emergency Friday, according to a press release. The hospitals will implement crisis...