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Dr. Sherrie Williams, a pulmonary critical care specialist, was the first MetroHealth employee to receive the COVID-19 vaccination on Wednesday.

The drug is slated to arrive in Ohio beginning Tuesday with ten hospitals, including MetroHealth, receiving shipments directly.

As COVID-19 cases surge across Ohio, hospital officials continue to sound the alarm about staffing shortages due to health care workers being sick or quarantined wiith COVID-19.

The public hospital system is building a 110-bed expansion to its Cleveland Heights Medical Center at Severance Circle.

Akron City Council on Monday night passed legislation that will temporarily limit the size of private gatherings in the city to six and mandate face coverings at those gatherings at all times; The city of Cleveland says it can’t keep up with the “unprecedented” number of COVID-19 cases flooding in; Gov. Mike DeWine signaled new COVID-19 health orders could be coming Tuesday; and more stories.

More than 1,000 workers from Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals and MetroHealth combined are unable to work because of the disease.

A recent study has found that heart attack cases in the U.S. have fallen by 50 percent during the pandemic. However, the death rate from heart attacks has…

A mom who understands the pain of losing an infant shares her grief to help families in Cuyahoga County, where black babies are nearly four times less…

Local groups are still working to bring easier-access coronavirus testing for Cleveland-area residents, including offering pop-up, drive-thru testing locations at local churches. The Cuyahoga County Board of Health and MetroHealth System offered drive-thru coronavirus testing Thursday at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in the Fairfax neighborhood on Cleveland’s East Side.

It may seem like an unusual initiative for a hospital: a website that features carryout food available from locally-owned restaurants. But as MetroHealth…