Some medical systems are temporarily requiring patients and visitors to wear face masks. The move is being made because there has been a recent rise in illnesses. UW Health requires masks in select ...

BOSTON - Mass General Brigham and Beth Israel Lahey Health will be ending their universal masking requirement at all their facilities starting on May 12. Both hospitals cited the end of the public ...

Hospitals across the U.S. are reinstating COVID-19 mask mandates as the JN.1 variant becomes the dominant strain spreading throughout the country. Mask mandates have long been controversial since they ...

It's unclear how long the mask policy will remain in effect for the Glens Falls Hospital. New York State Health Commissioner ...

Beginning next week, Cincinnati Children's Hospital is requiring all staff members to wear masks in clinical and public areas of all campuses due to the increased spread of respiratory illnesses, ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Throughout the COVID pandemic, hospitals have been under tight control. Visitors were limited and there were stringent protocols on masks. But now, something is changing across ...

Share on Pinterest A new observational study shows that hospital mask mandates may not have done much to slow the spread of COVID-19 during the Omicron period. Morsa Images/Getty Images Data collected ...

PROVIDENCE – Visitors and staff members at some major Rhode Island hospitals, including Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children's Hospital, will have to wear masks to prevent the spread of ...

Starting Nov. 1, everyone at the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula (CHOMP) must wear masks again due to concerns about rising COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses."Now is the time to ...