Hospitals Lose Millions of Dollars Because of Pandemic PUBLISHED 8:25 PM ET Jan. 17, 2021 PUBLISHED January 17, 2021 @8:25 PM
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ELKIN, N.C. North Carolina hospital staff has been working overtime since March. As a result of the pandemic, hospitals had to cancel appointments and postpone elective surgeries. It was a strategy to help free up resources for the fight against the coronavirus.
But that same strategy is costing hospitals millions of dollars.
“All the things we traditionally care for, like diabetes, chest pain, and heart failure, didn’t go away so we had those in addition to COVID,” explains Mary Blackburn, the chief clinical officer at Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital.