Nearly a month after a violent storm flooded Norwood (Mass.) Hospital, the facility remains closed, according to Boston 25 News. 

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves says ICU capacity problems are common in the state and occur even without COVID-19. The state's hospital association disagrees. 

Kansas City, Mo.-based Saint Luke's Health System ended inpatient care at its hospital in Leavenworth, Kan., on July 17. 

A Texas hospital has formed an ethics committee to screen all COVID-19 patients for survival potential and send home those with low survival chances, according to Border Report.

A temporary hospital that opened in April to treat COVID-19 patients in New York City treated only 79 patients during the month it was open, according to The New York Times. 

Emergency department visits in the U.S. are slowly rebounding after a significant decline this spring, according to an analysis from the Emergency Department Benchmarking Alliance. 

Florida officials are finalizing plans for a "super-skilled nursing facility" that will accept COVID-19 patients who don't require critical medical care, the Tampa Bay Times reports.

Hackensack Meridian Health announced July 16 that it has opened the first center in New Jersey focused on caring for COVID-19 patients who have recovered from the disease.

Meadville (Pa.) Medical Center closed one of its clinics after an employee tested positive for COVID-19, the hospital said July 15.

Florida officials say they are focusing on expanding hospital surge capacity rather than building alternate sites to accommodate an overflow of patients due to hurricane season, according to WUSF Public Media. 

Georgia health officials struck a deal with Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare to add at least 62 intensive care and surgical beds to the state's healthcare infrastructure.

Over the past decade, 78 rural hospitals across the U.S. have ended inpatient care but continued to provide other types of healthcare services, according to the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research.

The CDC has issued a guidance for health systems overwhelmed by COVID-19 patient surges.

Texas reported a .05 percent decrease in COVID-19 hospitalizations July 13, marking the first decline since June 28, according to state health department data.

Nurses and local officials are speaking out against New York City-based Montefiore Health System's decision to scale back services at Mount Vernon (N.Y.) Hospital, according to Rockland/Westchester Journal News. 

Florida currently has the most COVID-19 patients hospitalized, according to the COVID Tracking Project.

Of states reporting relevant data, California currently has the most COVID-19 patients in intensive care, according to the COVID Tracking Project.

Medical City Healthcare will suspend elective surgeries to prepare for a surge in COVID-19 patients, a spokesperson confirmed to Becker's.

Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare temporarily closed its emergency center in El Paso, Texas, and said it plans to divert patients and move to other facilities within the health system, a spokesperson confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.

About 16.5 percent of the more than 6,000 intensive care unit beds at Florida hospitals are available as of July 24, and there are 9,225 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in the state, according to data from the Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration.