It wasn't unusual to see once-competing hospitals become collaborators for resources and staff when the nation faced the first COVID-19 surge in early spring. Now in the face of a second surge, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker is ensuring that type of partnership doesn't occur only from a place of goodwill, but from a formalized, regional plan in partnership with the local hospital association, according to WBUR.  

Several hospitals and health systems in Illinois are beginning to delay elective surgeries amid a spike in coronavirus cases in the state.

Community Memorial Hospital in Cloquet, Minn., has halted some elective surgeries to free up beds amid a surge in hospitalizations, according to The Pine Journal. 

Mayo Clinic Health System said that 100 percent of its beds are full at its hospitals in northwest Wisconsin, according to local news station WQOW.

Aurora, Colo.-based UCHealth began postponing some nonemergency surgeries due to a surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations, according to CBS Local. 

St. Luke's Magic Valley Medical Center in Twin Falls, Idaho, said it temporarily stopped taking patients the last two weekends for about 12 hours as COVID-19 hospitalizations increased.

COVID-19 hospitalizations in the U.S. have nearly doubled since mid-September, pushing several areas closer to capacity, reports The New York Times.  

The United States and several states reached new records for new COVID-19 daily cases and hospitalizations this past week, showing the third surge of infection is accelerating in almost every region of the country, according to analysis from the COVID Tracking Project's co-founders in The Atlantic. 

Overall health services declined by 23 percent in March and 52 percent in April, compared to the same period in 2018-19, according to a Nov. 5 study published in JAMA Network Open.

UnityPoint Health Meriter in Madison, Wis., is rescheduling nonemergent surgeries that require overnight stays to save beds for COVID-19 patients, according to Wisconsin Business.

Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health permanently closed the emergency department at its hospital in Travelers Rest, S.C., the system said Nov. 5.

St. Luke's, a two-hospital system in Duluth, Minn., is postponing nonemergency surgeries amid a surge in COVID-19 patients, according to local news station WDIO.

As health officials in Colorado warn of "mounting pressure" on the healthcare system, Colorado hospitals are still accepting COVID-19 transfer patients from nearby states, reports CBS4. 

A COVID-19 surge is straining intensive care unit capacity at hospitals in the Twin Cities metro area of Minnesota, according to the Star Tribune.

St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare plans to postpone elective care at four of its hospitals, according to The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 

Methodist Health System, Nebraska Medicine and CHI Health, all based in Omaha, Neb., have limited elective or nonurgent surgeries as COVID-19 cases rise in the state.

Sanford Health, a 46-hospital system based in Sioux Falls, S.D., will begin rescheduling elective procedures due to a spike in hospitalizations, according to The Sioux Falls Argus Leader.

The Regional Medical Center of San Jose is preparing for a potential surge of cardiac patients tied to Election Day stress, reports CBS affiliate KPIX-TV.

Quincy (Mass.) Medical Center, which has operated as a freestanding emergency department since 2014, has closed, according to The Patriot Ledger.

Lincoln, Neb.-based Bryan Health is scaling back elective surgeries as COVID-19 cases rise, the Journal Star reported.