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Macon, Ga.-based Medical Center Navicent Health altered its visitation policy to allow visitors to return to its hospital and surgery center in most cases, Fox24 reports.

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Toledo, Ohio-based ProMedica eased visitor restrictions for adult patients at some of its inpatient and outpatient facilities in Michigan, Lenconnect.com reports.

Arizona hospitals may have to stop performing elective surgery after statewide bed capacity hit 83 percent, exceeding the 80 percent "safety" threshold, Vox reports.

Philadelphia Surgery Center in Narberth, Pa., reopened with a number of safety precautions in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

CMS is encouraging healthcare organizations to reopen facilities for nonemergency care and released a new set of guidelines and considerations for them to follow.

More New York outpatient centers are restarting their elective surgical programs as the state continues to reopen, silive.com reports.

Renton, Wash.-based Providence is making pay cuts across its health system, including physicians and clinicians with Portland, Ore.-based Providence Medical Group, according to The Oregonian.

Clinicians in Detroit and its surrounding suburbs have reopened their practices and are seeing higher patient volumes than expected, but still are falling below their pre-COVID-19 numbers, Crain's Detroit Business reports.

After a delay that left many frustrated, ASCs in Erie County, N.Y., are allowed to resume elective surgeries, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced June 3.