Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Spectrum Health received approval from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to temporarily add 54 inpatient beds at Helen DeVos Children's Hospital in case the COVID-19 surge worsens, MiBiz reported Dec. 28.

Cleveland Clinic revised its timeline for the resumption of nonurgent procedures to mid-January. 

Tomah (Wis.) Health is suspending urgent care starting Jan. 1 as it deals with high patient volume from COVID-19 and other illnesses.

Several hospitals across Maryland have activated crisis standards of care as COVID-19 hospitalizations spike. 

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan confirmed the state surpassed 1,500 COVID-19 hospitalizations Dec. 23, triggering hospitals within the state to enact pandemic plans as mandated by the health department. 

TidalHealth is temporarily suspending nonemergency surgeries that would require an overnight stay at Salisbury, Md.-based TidalHealth Peninsula Regional and Seaford, Del.-based TidalHealth Nanticoke starting Dec. 27.

Eleven people, including eight employees of Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Health, were injured in a crash Dec. 22 involving a shuttle and car, the health system confirmed to Becker's.

Beginning in mid-January, maternity services will no longer be available at Pulaski Memorial Hospital in Winamac, Ind., local news station WKVI reported Dec. 22. 

The West Virginia Hospital Association is urging the public to take preventive measures to ease strain on the state's healthcare system and ensure critical care services are not disrupted ahead of an anticipated surge in COVID-19 cases. 

As of Dec. 17, New York's list of hospitals ordered to halt nonurgent procedures due to limited capacity included 28 facilities, according to the state health department.

As U.S. COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations tick up, some hospitals and health systems have again postponed nonemergency procedures to free up hospital space and ensure they can adequately care for urgent healthcare needs. 

Columbus-based Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center will postpone nonemergent surgeries that require overnight stays beginning Jan. 3, The Columbus Dispatch reported.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan confirmed the state surpassed 1,200 COVID-19 hospitalizations Dec. 17, triggering a series of new actions for hospitals that include limiting nonurgent surgeries requiring overnight stays.

Cleveland Clinic is extending the delay of nonessential surgeries requiring hospital beds through Dec. 31 as COVID-19 hospitalizations rise, effective Dec. 20, the system said Dec. 17.

Maryland hospitals have been directed to reduce the number of nonurgent medical surgeries requiring overnight stays once the state hits 1,200 COVID-19 hospitalizations, Gov. Larry Hogan said Dec. 15. 

The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board approved Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine's application to close the obstetrics and gynecology department at its McHenry, Ill., hospital, Lake & McHenry County Scanner reported Dec. 14.

Massachusetts is ordering hospitals with limited capacity to reduce nonurgent procedures by 50 percent starting Dec. 15. 

COVID-19 hospitalizations are rising nationally — up 21 percent over the last 14 days — but remain below levels seen during last winter's peak, according to HHS data cited by The New York Times. 

Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger health system was running at 110 percent capacity across its nine hospitals in Pennsylvania as of Dec. 8, officials with the health system said during a Dec. 8 news conference.

Amid a COVID-19 surge, health systems in Maine and Michigan are adjusting their surgical volumes as they grapple with a rise in hospitalizations.