Banner Health will pause elective surgeries Jan. 1, the Phoenix-based system announced Dec. 30. 

Beginning Jan. 4, Cleveland Clinic will resume nonessential surgeries requiring an overnight hospital stay in Ohio.

Minneapolis-based M Health Fairview will close the emergency department at St. Joseph's Hospital in St. Paul, Minn., on Dec. 30, according to the Star Tribune. 

As a nurse leader at Illinois-based Carle Foundation Hospital for more than two years, Erin O’Neal always considered patient rounding part of her responsibilities. 

Twenty-one Kaiser Permanente hospitals in Northern California are suspending elective, non-urgent procedures through Jan. 4 as they continue to face a surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations, according to The Mercury News.

Two people were injured in a Dec. 22 shooting at a medical facility next to Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center, reports NBC affiliate KGW.

Several hospitals in Los Angeles County are preparing for the possibility of restrategizing care delivery in the coming weeks amid growing COVID-19 hospitalizations, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Colorado officials are working to extend the lease for at least one overflow site as COVID-19 rages, according to The Colorado Sun.

Mississippi hospitals must delay elective surgeries that require an inpatient stay starting this week, according to state health officials.

With COVID-19 hospitalizations in New Mexico nearly tripling since early November, the state placed a temporary ban on nonessential surgeries and OK'd "crisis care" standards Dec. 10 — a measure that would allow for care rationing based on patients' chance of survival, reports The Washington Post.

Indiana hospitals must halt all nonemergency inpatient surgeries from Dec. 16 through Jan. 3, Gov. Eric Holcomb said during a media briefing Dec. 9. 

Hospitals across the U.S. are beginning to suspend elective procedures to respond to an uptick in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. 

If current COVID-19 trends continue, North Carolina will run out of acute hospital beds in about six weeks and hit intensive care unit capacity in about five weeks, according to estimates released Dec. 8.

Adventist Health St. Helena (Calif.) will reopen to patients Dec. 9 after a wildfire caused the hospital to close for more than two months.

Starting Dec. 11, Massachusetts hospitals must scale back the number of elective surgeries performed, Gov. Charlie Baker said during a press conference, according to The Boston Globe.

Hospitals across the U.S. are beginning to suspend elective procedures to respond to an uptick in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. 

New York will order hospitals in the state to boost bed capacity by 25 percent, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a media briefing Dec. 7. 

The Mayo Clinic Health System temporarily suspended operations at one of its Minnesota clinics and will do the same at four others, the health system said Dec. 3.

Providence, R.I.- based Lifespan Health System has started sending some of its COVID-19 patients to a field hospital at the Rhode Island Convention Center as its standard facility beds fill, according to a Dec. 2 CNBC report. 

About 26 percent of U.S. children visited an urgent care or retail health clinic last year, according to a new CDC report.