Kaiser is postponing all elective and non-urgent surgeries at Northern California facilities due to the surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations. They plan to reschedule services as soon as feasible while making sure patients and staff stay safe.
As of now, University of California San Francisco Medical Center is not cancelling elective procedures, but the situation could change.
Stanford Health is also going ahead with elective procedures that do no require a hospital bed, while Kaiser Permanente is delaying many as a response to California s COVID-19 surge. We re still doing surgeries, for instance, with cancer, with urgent procedures. We re doing emergent procedures that need to be done, said Dr. Michael Vollmer with Kaiser Permanente, But things that can be delayed, even for a week or two, until we can get this surge under control in the state.