St. Joseph's Hospital in Elmira, N.Y., closed its emergency department June 1, according to TV station WETM. 

Several health systems in Chicago canceled elective procedures June 1 after a weekend packed with public transit disruptions and protests following the death of George Floyd, according to The Chicago Tribune. 

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health opened acute ventilator recovery units at two hospitals to help wean severely ill COVID-19 patients off ventilators and ease their transition to a rehab facility, the health system said June 1. 

The following hospitals and health systems have recently loosened COVID-19-related visitor restrictions or plan to soon. 

Many community hospitals in Southern California are struggling to treat a large influx of COVID-19 patients from Mexico, according to The Washington Post.

Looking back on the last few months, it is incredible how fast healthcare providers have shifted their strategies to meet the needs of their patients, staff, and communities throughout the COVID-19 crisis. Amid the uncertainty,  one thing has remained constant — the rapid pace of change.

The Los Angeles Surge Hospital, which opened five weeks ago to treat COVID-19 patients, will close by the end of June, according to the Los Angeles Times. 

Dozens of hospitals nationwide have treated a much smaller number of COVID-19 patients than expected, but leaders said they don't regret being overprepared for potential surges, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Hospitals across the country are seeing significant drops in emergency department visits as more patients avoid them during the COVID-19 pandemic. Adventist Health Lodi (Calif.) Memorial, a 150-bed community hospital, decided to address those fears head-on and encourage patients who needed emergency care to come to the hospital's ED, according an article in NEJM Catalyst.

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health has discharged 10,210 COVID-19 patients as of May 11, surpassing the threshold of 10,000 patient discharges, the health system told Becker's Hospital Review.

The field hospital set up at Joint Base Cape Cod, which closed this week, didn't receive or treat a single COVID-19 patient, according to the Cape Cod Times. 

St. Joseph's Hospital in Elmira, N.Y., will close its emergency department June 1, according to TV station WENY. 

Beaumont Health plans to reopen its hospital in Wayne, Mich., in several phases, the Southfield, Mich.-based health system said.

As hospitals and health systems prepare to resume elective procedures and return to a "new normal," they must work to alleviate any fears patients and staff have related to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to David Entwistle, president and CEO of Stanford Health Care.

When the COVID-19 crisis struck, hospitals and clinics across the country suspended elective procedures and some routine care to support the need for social distancing, taking every precaution to slow the spread and ensure the safety of our communities, patients and staff. We had a simple message: "stay home if you're sick." That message worked to help isolate those with respiratory illnesses. As many have written and the data is showing, people did stay home, but some had illnesses that still required care, often emergently. The message of "stay at home" that was repeated on television and elsewhere has led to the unintended consequence of a secondary health crisis, which has gone underreported by the media. 

Around 29 percent of U.S. adults said they have delayed or avoided seeking medical care due to concerns about contracting COVID-19, a new poll shows.

Nearly 20 states are projected to see peak demand for hospital resources due to COVID-19 over the next two weeks, according to updated projections from the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle. 

The CDC has created a tool to help hospital administrators and public health officials predict a surge in demand for hospital services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Crozer-Keystone Health System is shutting down inpatient care and non-emergency services at its hospital in Springfield, Pa., until June, according to the Delaware County Daily Times. 

From mid-March through mid-April, outpatient visits have declined nearly 60 percent due to COVID-19, according to research from Cambridge, Mass.-based Harvard University and healthcare technology company Phreesia.