/tags/hospitals Hospitals en-US Copyright KUT News 2025 Wed, 07 Feb 2024 20:15:00 GMT /health/2024-02-07/texas-childrens-hospital-open-north-austin Texas Children's Hospital North Austin has opened its doors, becoming the second hospital for children to open in North Austin in the past year. Wed, 07 Feb 2024 20:15:00 GMT /health/2024-02-07/texas-childrens-hospital-open-north-austin Olivia Aldridge /health/2023-04-27/dell-childrens-opens-new-north-austin-campus Dell Children's Medical Center North opened to patients on Thursday, bringing emergency services and specialty care to a rapidly growing area in Central Texas. Thu, 27 Apr 2023 11:00:00 GMT /health/2023-04-27/dell-childrens-opens-new-north-austin-campus Olivia Aldridge /health/2022-10-11/theres-a-spike-in-respiratory-illness-among-children-and-its-not-just-covid Sick kids are crowding emergency rooms in parts of the country and some pediatric hospitals say they're running out of beds. Tue, 11 Oct 2022 12:53:36 GMT /health/2022-10-11/theres-a-spike-in-respiratory-illness-among-children-and-its-not-just-covid Manuela LĂłpez Restrepo, Mary Louise Kelly /health/2022-09-28/some-hospitals-rake-in-high-profits-while-their-patients-are-loaded-with-medical-debt Across the U.S., many hospitals have become wealthy, even as their bills force patients to make gut-wrenching sacrifices. This pattern is especially stark for health care systems in Dallas-Fort Worth. Wed, 28 Sep 2022 12:34:40 GMT /health/2022-09-28/some-hospitals-rake-in-high-profits-while-their-patients-are-loaded-with-medical-debt Noam Levey /covid-19/2022-04-05/texas-chief-epidemiologist-hopeful-as-covid-19-hospitalizations-fall-to-two-year-low The state's top expert said nearly 99 percent of the population has developed some immune response to COVID-19. But other public health experts caution the virus can be unpredictable. Tue, 05 Apr 2022 19:35:25 GMT /covid-19/2022-04-05/texas-chief-epidemiologist-hopeful-as-covid-19-hospitalizations-fall-to-two-year-low Joseph Leahy /covid-19/2022-01-30/why-omicron-is-crushing-hospitals-even-though-cases-are-often-milder-than-delta People who get infected with omicron are less likely to go to the hospital, go on a ventilator or die. But with the current huge volume of patients, hospitals are still struggling to treat them all. Sun, 30 Jan 2022 15:41:22 GMT /covid-19/2022-01-30/why-omicron-is-crushing-hospitals-even-though-cases-are-often-milder-than-delta Will Stone /2022-01-15/want-to-get-omicron-and-just-get-it-over-with-heres-why-thats-a-bad-idea Most of us will eventually get COVID but that's not an invitation to party with omicron. Here's why you might want to hang onto your mask and keep cautious a little longer. Mon, 17 Jan 2022 17:47:57 GMT /2022-01-15/want-to-get-omicron-and-just-get-it-over-with-heres-why-thats-a-bad-idea Allison Aubrey, Sheila Eldred /covid-19/2021-12-27/3-nurses-give-their-inside-story-on-how-omicron-is-affecting-the-country Here's how their hospitals are doing nearly two years into the pandemic, what they are seeing in new omicron patients, and their thoughts on the wave of burnout affecting the industry. Mon, 27 Dec 2021 18:41:43 GMT /covid-19/2021-12-27/3-nurses-give-their-inside-story-on-how-omicron-is-affecting-the-country Wynne Davis, Ari Shapiro, Ashley Westerman, Patrick Jarenwattananon /2021-12-21/with-omicron-now-dominant-depleted-u-s-hospitals-struggle-to-prepare-for-the-worst Understaffed hospitals are already coping with increased patient demand heading into the holidays. They have few options to expand if omicron creates a huge new wave of COVID patients. Tue, 21 Dec 2021 17:18:49 GMT /2021-12-21/with-omicron-now-dominant-depleted-u-s-hospitals-struggle-to-prepare-for-the-worst Will Stone /covid-19/2021-08-30/thousands-of-health-care-workers-head-to-texas-hospitals-amid-covid-19-surge-will-it-be-enough So far the state has paid to hire more than 8,000 contract health care workers as hospitalizations from COVID-19 in Texas approach the record set last winter. Mon, 30 Aug 2021 13:17:09 GMT /covid-19/2021-08-30/thousands-of-health-care-workers-head-to-texas-hospitals-amid-covid-19-surge-will-it-be-enough Allyson Waller | The Texas Tribune