Hospitals prepped — and spent big — for the eclipse. It was a bust
Some U.S. hospitals spent months planning for Monday's events, which brought swarms of traffic to small towns and cities. It was an expensive two minutes.
For hospitals nationwide, Monday’s solar eclipse was an expensive two minutes.
St. Charles Health System in central Oregon canceled elective surgeries to get ready for a rush of patients and increased emergency and acute care staff by nearly 40 percent.
In southwestern Illinois, Red Bud Regional Hospital added on-call staff and security, and held several weeks of training sessions for clinicians.
And at Palmetto Health in Columbia, S.C., administrators
