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Cleveland's St. Vincent Charity Medical Center on Wednesday announced it will discontinue inpatient and emergency room services in November.
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University Hospitals will no longer provide inpatient, surgical and emergency services at their UH Bedford and Richmond medical centers because of staffing shortages exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the hospital system announced Thursday.
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Hospitals are allowing patients to have more visitors, after several months of restrictions brought on by an unprecedented influx of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.
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But the Ohio Hospital Association says those services come with a steep cost.
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The hospital system is overwhelmed with cases of the delta variant of COVID-19, the flu and the new, highly contagious omicron variant.
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National Guard members should arrive at hospitals by the end of this week to help with the latest surge of COVID-19.
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These attacks can lead to significant delays in care for already overburdened or rural hospitals.
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Vaccinated people make up 1.6% of COVID-19 hospitalizations this year.
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All six Cincinnati-area hospital systems will require employees to be vaccinated against COVID before the end of the year, though some exceptions will be made.
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Health systems in Central Ohio will soon be requiring COVID-19 vaccines for their employees.