How to Use nonurgent in a Sentence

nonurgent

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• NHS England states that patients should be able to see a nonurgent specialist within 18 weeks.
  — Mailee Osten-Tan, Longreads, 8 June 2022
• The post office has long had a legal monopoly to deliver first-class mail, or nonurgent letters.
  — Josh Sandbulte, WSJ, 13 July 2017
• Once the temporary ban on nonurgent care lifted, patients began to return, but many still delayed their care.
  — Portland Business Journal, oregonlive, 24 Dec. 2020
• Last year, a man died in March after dispatchers misclassified a 911 call as nonurgent.
  — Paul Duggan, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023
• Ambulances would still go to medical emergencies, but they wouldn’t be dispatched to many calls deemed nonurgent.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2024
• At some point, depending on how long the coronavirus outbreak lasts, some nonurgent surgeries could very well become urgent.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 17 Mar. 2020
• Mayo has performed some scans without the contrast dye or used lower doses where appropriate, and has rescheduled some nonurgent exams, Mr. Tichy said.
  — Peter Loftus, WSJ, 17 May 2022
• Elective surgeries and other nonurgent care have been suspended.
  — Stacey Plaisance, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Aug. 2021
• Other complaints that are considered nonurgent, Rothschild said, must be responded to within 72 hours to set up an inspection with the complainant, who is usually the tenant.
  — Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant, 19 Sep. 2022
• Dentists have lost billions since patients began postponing nonurgent dental care this spring.
  — Sarah Kliff, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2020
• Many nonurgent health care services saw a decline in demand during the pandemic and are now experiencing a rebound amid a shortage of nurses and other skilled workers.
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2022
• When the pandemic hit in mid-March, the company cancelled all nonurgent medical procedures and outpatient programs, which generate the bulk of its revenue.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2020
• United’s decision seemed aimed at making sure people did not go back to using the emergency room for nonurgent care, even as hospitals might try to encourage more people to return, said Chas Roades, a co-founder of Gist.
  — New York Times, 10 June 2021
• The country has announced that on April 27, hospitals can resume nonurgent care and outpatient procedures, such as dental work and physical therapy.
  — Greg Norman | Fox News, Fox News, 17 Apr. 2020
• Revenue only worsened this spring with a statewide shutdown to reduce viral activity that included the suspension of nonurgent surgeries.
  — Jeremy Olson, Star Tribune, 5 Oct. 2020
• Residents will be allowed to have nonurgent doctors' appointments again starting Monday, Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced.
  — Faith Karimi and Steve Almasy, CNN, 16 Apr. 2020
• As people avoided hospitals during the pandemic and nonurgent appointments were canceled, something skipped by many were routine screening appointments like Pap smears or breast exams.
  — Alison Bowen, chicagotribune.com, 21 July 2021
• The Army secretary remains authorized to control Guard operations in the district and to consider district government requests for use of the Guard in the city for non-law enforcement purposes and in nonurgent situations.
  — Robert Burns, ajc, 30 Dec. 2021
• Nothing time is different from free time; Dead Week is not a vacation and not a holiday, but we are afforded so little truly unmarked and nonurgent time that five days when nothing really matters can feel like something more precious than either one.
  — Helena Fitzgerald, The Atlantic, 27 Dec. 2021
• Many hospitals have stopped nonurgent surgery while some ambulances rely on medical students to operate and can’t attend every life-threatening call, union officials say.
  — Rhiannon Hoyle, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
• Kaiser is managing staffing by employing traveling nurses, adjusting elective and nonurgent surgeries and procedures, and making use of telehealth options.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2022
• Governors in dozens of states have delivered executive orders or guidelines directing hospitals to stop nonurgent procedures and surgeries to various degrees.
  — New York Times, 3 Apr. 2020
• Those include unplanned, unanticipated and nonurgent notifications, requests from others and your own curious thoughts.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 29 May 2020
• With infections, hospitalizations and deaths linked to Covid-19 rising exponentially, hospitals in Milan are running out of beds even after having converted wards and suspended nonurgent procedures.
  — Eric Sylvers, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2020
• Both moves came after several hospitals in Maryland in recent weeks moved to crisis mode, implementing protocols that give them more flexibility to delay some nonurgent surgical procedures to preserve bed capacity.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 11 Jan. 2022
• Kaiser Permanente is postponing nonurgent and elective surgeries and procedures at its facilities throughout California.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2020
• Order 20-10 prohibits elective and nonurgent medical procedures as well as nonessential hospital visitation.
  — Devon Link, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024