BOLDUAN: Hospitals across the country are on the front lines of this pandemic, of course, and in many places struggling to keep up with the demand for care but it is more than being overwhelmed with an influx of patients and ICU beds running low. Some hospitals are essentially going broke losing millions and some cases billions of dollars. CNN's Sara Sidner has more.</s>SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The dreaded sound of an emergency seem to be the only sound filling the air in New York City for far too long.</s>JAKE VITULLI, FIRST RESPONDENR: The beginning of this whole pandemic was very, very hectic. It was crazy, craziest of my career.</s>SIDNER: While hospitals were packed with Coronavirus patients here they were also losing staggering amounts of money.</s>MICHAEL DOWLING, CEO NORTHWELL HEALTH: We'd hit out hospitals to the tune of about $1.6 billion. So it is roughly between 300 million and $400 million a month that we have been losing.</s>SIDNER: From the largest health care system in New York that treated more than 40,000 COVID patients to the Seattle suburbs where the first known major Coronavirus outbreak hit in late February.</s>DR. JEFF TOMLIN, CEO, EVERGREEN HEALTH: Even in the first month of March we projected a $15 million loss and that's one small hospital, healthcare system.</s>SIDNER: To hospitals across Michigan, both rural and metropolitan.</s>ROBERT CASALOU, REGIONAL PRESIDENT & CEO, TRINITY MICHIGAN SOUTHEAST REGION: Our revenue went down immediately 60 percent I mean, overnight.</s>SIDNER: The American Hospital Association estimates that hospitals and health systems will have losses this year of $323.1 billion.
Hospitals Losing Millions Of Dollars In Fight Against Virus.