'This is not a decision we made lightly. It is one that was made after exhausting all other avenues,' a top state health system official said.
Hospitals and health centers associated with the University of Maryland Capital Regional Health have declared a"hospital emergency" amid a recent spike in COVID-19 hospitalizations throughout the state.
All policies will be decided upon in partnership with Johns Hopkins Medicine and in line with recommendations from the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine, the statement added. A"hospital emergency" has been declared in Maryland, as health centers implement"crisis policies." In this photo, healthcare workers tend to a COVID-19 patient in a holding pod at Providence St. Mary Medical Center in Apple Valley, California, on Jan. 11, 2021.On Wednesday, Maryland's Republican Governor Larry Hogan announced that the state's COVID-19 hospitalizations had reached record levels. The surge, he said, has primarily been driven by unvaccinated people.
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