The crush of COVID-19 patients is overwhelming the health care system. This is a Kaiser Health News story. As the number of COVID-19 patients climbs and health officials hunt for ventilators to treat ...

As the number of COVID-19 patients climbs and health officials hunt for ventilators to treat them, nursing homes across the United States have a cache ― about 8,200 of the lifesaving machines, ...

Just this week, the coronavirus pandemic passed 2 million confirmed infections and 130,000 deaths worldwide. With such a rapid rise in cases, hospitals are struggling with the shortage of ventilators, ...

Hospitals in the United States have about 160,000 ventilators, while nursing homes have about 8,200. Though the federal government has about 12,700 in stockpile, experts have said worst case scenarios ...

The number of nursing home residents with advanced dementia who get hooked up to breathing machines has roughly doubled in recent years even though this doesn't appear to help them live longer, a U.S.

NEW YORK CITY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo stopped by a nursing home upstate to thank its staff for lending ventilators to New York City, where the number of patients seriously ill with the new coronavirus has ...

Insight provides an in-depth look at health care issues in and affecting California. Have a story suggestion? Let us know. As the number of COVID-19 patients climbs and health officials hunt for ...

As the number of COVID-19 patients climbs and health officials hunt for ventilators to treat them, nursing homes across the United States have a cache ― about 8,200 of the lifesaving machines, ...