Hospitals

Dexamethasone COVID-19

Inexpensive steroid reduces death risk among severe COVID-19 patients

Children's Health

CHOP retains No. 2 spot in U.S. News' best pediatric hospital rankings

CHOP ranked second by U.S. News

Electronic health records miss 33% of medical errors, study finds

Electronic health records

Philadelphia Orchestra brings music to Penn Medicine patients

Philadelphia Orchestra

You can help Dock Street send pizza, positive messages to homeless shelters

Dock Street donations

New Jersey continues expansion of COVID-19 testing across pharmacies

COVID-19 testing New Jersey

Some elective surgeries, invasive procedures now allowed to resume as New Jersey hospitals empty

surgery resume new jersey

Pennsylvania hospitals receive remdesivir to treat COVID-19 patients

Remdesivir Pennsylvania Hospitals

Air Force Reserve honors healthcare workers in Burlington, Camden counties with flyover

New Jersey flyover

New Jersey Air National Guard to conduct flyover honoring COVID-19 frontline workers on Tuesday

NJ Air National Guard

Philly-area COVID-19 hospitalizations down about 20% from April peak

Hospitals COVID-19 Philly

New Jersey to receive shipment of remdesivir to treat hospitalized COVID-19 patients

New Jersey remdesivir

COVID-19 hospitalizations in South Jersey beginning to level off

South Jersey COVID-19 hospitalizations

More than 50 New Jersey hospitals to receive financial assistance from federal government this week

Hospitals New Jersey

In South Jersey, COVID-19 hospitalizations have yet to peak

South Jersey hospitalizations

Philly shutting down Liacouras Center surge hospital for COVID-19 patients

Liacouras COVID-19 Closing

Elective surgeries can resume in Pennsylvania after month-long ban

Pennsylvania elective surgeries

Rutgers launches nation's largest study of health care workers exposed to COVID-19

Rutgers COVID-19 Healthcare

Philly officials 'appalled' by improper transfer of bodies in pickup truck

Einstein Bodies Philly

Uneven lab reports complicate Philly's COVID-19 progress, health commissioner says

Lab Delays Philly

Face masks, fever checks will be part of 'new normal' in New Jersey after coronavirus relents, Murphy predicts

normal life coronavirus

Some Philly-area hospitals 'near capacity' for COVID-19 patients in ICUs

ICUs COVID-19 Philly

Aramark begins manufacturing personal protective equipment

Aramark PPE COVID-19

Philly secures refrigerated trucks to handle morgue overflow for growing number dead from coronavirus

morgue trucks coronavirus refrigerated

Coronavirus-stricken cities like Philly have empty hospitals, but reopening them is difficult

Hahnemann Hospital Coronavirus COVID-19

Lizzo buys lunch for emergency room staff at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Penn Medicine Lizzo lunch

Philadelphia doctor writes about scarcity of supplies and lack of planning at one city hospital

COVID-19 Philadelphia hospital doctor

COVID-19 model projects death tolls, hospital needs in Pennsylvania, New Jersey

COVID-19 Death Toll Model

New Jersey setting up temporary hospital in Atlantic City to treat coronavirus patients

New Jersey temporary hospitals beds coronavirus

TV medical dramas donate supplies to hospitals in need amid coronavirus pandemic

Medical drama supplies coronavirus

New Jersey looks to reopen Inspira Health hospital in Woodbury for COVID-19 patients

Inspira Woodbury COVID-19

Penn Medicine restricts visitation, plans rescheduling of outpatient visits because of coronavirus

Penn Medicine Coronavirus visitation

Mercy Hospital in West Philadelphia closing its inpatient facilities

Mercy Hospital West Philadelphia

Cooper becomes world's first hospital to use new virtual reality system for stroke patients

Cooper Virtual Reality

Pennsylvania hospitals cancel surgeries over surgical gown recall

Allegheny Health Gowns

Effort to control opioids in an ER leaves some sickle cell patients in pain

Opioids Sickle Cell Disease

Most women give birth lying in bed, but is there a better way?

Hospital Birth

More Americans are dying at home than in the hospital – for the first time in decades

Dying at home - hospice

'I feel like I'm in jail': Hospital alarms torment patients

Hospital alarms

Camden hospital admits performing kidney transplant on wrong patient

Virtua Lady Lourdes

White House unveils finalized health care price transparency rule

Alex Azar White House hospital transparency rule

Children's Health

Pennsylvania hospital's donor breast milk process at fault for death of 3 infants

Geisinger Pseudomonas

Why hospitals are getting into the housing business

Denver Health

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