COVID-19 California: Bay Area hospitals rescheduling some elective surgeries, 'anything that can wait' amid surge in cases
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 insta...