Deaths should peak at about 2,200 per day on April 15 and social distancing is critical because "there's no magic bullet," said Dr. Deborah Birx.

Some pregnant women fear giving birth with no loved ones by their side. Others worry about getting sick with COVID-19 and not being able to hold their newborns.

Some hospitals and physicians can access a $349 billion fund for loans to compensate for losses due to COVID-19.

Live updates from Modern Healthcare on the coronavirus outbreak and how COVID-19 is affecting the healthcare industry.

Coronavirus relief funding for hospitals will be coming through several federal and state government sources, so experts recommend that hospitals track all their expenses and lost revenue.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers announced on Monday that the state has initiated a new public-private partnership to increase its laboratory testing capacity for COVID-19.

State GOP officials say a temporary ban on abortions is needed to prioritize supplies for COVID-19 caregivers.

U.S. health regulators are telling drugmakers to immediately pull all prescription and over-the-counter versions of ranitidine, best known by the brand name Zantac, off the market.

The ripple effects of a COVID-19 outbreak among the homeless in our communities will affect each of us and the health systems already stretched so thin.

There's a chance that hospitals could qualify for a large corporate relief fund that offers loans with strings attached.

Pursuit of a COVID-19 treatment has reignited debate over drugs developed with public funds.

After initially suing AtlantiCare to prevent it from leaving its system earlier this year, Geisinger Health has now agreed to the departure.

In addition, Trinity Health national CEO Michael Slubowski will take a 50% decrease in base pay. About 1,500 of the Catholic health system's approximately 28,000 staff and employees in Michigan will be redeployed to other jobs to address coronavirus.

Carlos Migoya, the CEO of Jackson Health System in Miami, has confirmed he tested positive for COVID-19. The system also confirmed that an ICU nurse died over the weekend.

Boasting a healthy financial sheet, HCA Healthcare does not have any immediate plans to furlough staff due to the COVID-19 outbreak. And the company's CEO will donate two months' worth of salary to an employee fund.

Northwestern Medicine, Cook County Health and the University of Illinois' health system are testing Ebola drug remdesivir in clinical trials of hospitalized COVID-19 patients.

Leading investors, researchers and other experts suggest that the next decades of biotechnology innovation will usher in a new phase of precision medicine, with the potential to fundamentally change how patient care is managed.

Pennsylvania's governor has directed that $8 million be given to a private equity-owned hospital operator to keep the hospital open through April.

Thanks to COVID-19, the concept of "healthcare with no address" has gone from a nice futuristic idea to being critical to the industry's future.

Data compiled by Johns Hopkins University shows that 1,297 counties have no confirmed cases of COVID-19 out of 3,142 counties nationwide.

Employees could be furloughed for up to three months if their work isn't directly relevant to COVID-19, as Bon Secours Mercy Health estimates it will lose $100 million per month due to the pandemic.

Medline Industries is pursuing FDA approval of a plan to resterilize hundreds of thousands of healthcare workers' face masks now that sterilization services are back online at its Waukegan facility.

The coronavirus couldn’t care less if you live in a red state or a blue state. Yet states across the U.S. are taking dramatically different approaches to controlling the spread of the highly contagious COVID-19.

California is recruiting thousands of retired healthcare workers along with medical and nursing students to help staff emergency hospitals at sports arenas and other sites to handle the anticipated flood of coronavirus patients.

Specialists like anesthesiologists, orthopedic surgeons and cardiologists, who don't typically treat infectious disease patients, are heeding calls from overwhelmed hospitals to help treat the rising number of COVID-19 patients.

Researchers and companies are trying new approaches to map the novel coronavirus' spread. It's a challenge, given the limited number of tests available to confirm where cases actually are.

An estimated 4,000 U.S. hospitals outsource their emergency departments seeking a staffing, financial and performance boost. But keeping patients in-network is getting harder.

Intermountain Healthcare is cutting physician pay and reviewing shift assignments as it braces for the financial toll of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Ming Lin, a ER doctor at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center in Bellingham, Wash., for the past 17 years, said he's been fired after posting on social media that the hospital was slow to screen visitors and negligent in not testing staff.

Appalachian Regional Healthcare, a 13-hospital system in Lexington, Ky., will furlough 500 employees—about 8% of its workforce.

As a result of the coronavirus crisis and our collective response to it, we just might be seeing what healthcare can look like once this crisis passes.

Mount Sinai Health System in New York has set up a three-part action plan to address the stresses COVID-19 is creating for its workforce. 

Dr. Pat Basu is coming up on his year anniversary as CEO of Cancer Treatment Centers of America. During that time, Basu has worked to expand its network with payers and forge partnerships with other providers.