Kaiser Permanente will join several hospitals in California and postpone non-urgent elective surgeries in response to the current increase in COVID-19 cases across the state, Eyewitness News has noted.
Hospital officials say the decision was made to release staff to focus on supporting COVID-19 units, while ensuring that Kaiser’s facilities had the capacity and staff available to provide care. .
“Exceptions to this pause in surgeries are cancer and suspected cases of cancer, as well as any situation in which postponing surgery would have a negative impact on the patient’s medical condition, including pain,” officials said in a statement. a statement.
The postponement will last until January 10 and no new elective surgeries will be scheduled until the end of next month.
Hospital officials are in direct contact with patients affected by this change.
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