Alabama hospital converts COVID unit back to cancer beds

Tuscaloosa, Ala.-based DCH Regional Medical Center is reopening the hospital’s oncology unit, WVUA 23  reported Aug. 12.

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The 15-room unit was previously used for COVID-19 patients during the pandemic. It is reverting back to a cancer unit and accepted its first inpatients Aug. 7.

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