How to Use nonurgent in a Sentence

nonurgent

adjective
  • 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
  • Elective surgeries and other nonurgent care have been suspended.
    — Stacey Plaisance, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • Prolotherapy does not cure any condition and is used as an elective (nonurgent) treatment.
    — Alex Yampolsky, Verywell Health, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Dentists have lost billions since patients began postponing nonurgent dental care this spring.
    — Sarah Kliff, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • The urge to pursue your pleasures will be all but impossible to ignore, so feel free to leave less exciting nonurgent tasks for another time.
    — Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Last year, a man died in March after dispatchers misclassified a 911 call as nonurgent.
    — Paul Duggan, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Canada's system ensures equitable access and lower costs but is often criticized for longer wait times for nonurgent procedures.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Protect your time and use something like the Eisenhower Matrix to let go of nonurgent or unimportant activities.
    — Denise Russo, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This crisis particularly affected those facilities that faced restrictions on nonurgent care.
    — Len Wright, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • All other complaints are classified as nonurgent, and are responded to within 48 hours of notification to assess the complaint and schedule an inspection.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 23 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Those include unplanned, unanticipated and nonurgent notifications, requests from others and your own curious thoughts.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 29 May 2020
  • 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
  • Mass General Brigham, one of America’s biggest health care systems, canceled all nonurgent surgeries, procedures, and medical visits.
    — David Cox, WIRED, 19 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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