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13 hospitals scaling back care
Several hospitals are scaling back services for a variety of reasons, including financial challenges and staffing issues. -
Brigham and Women's doubles size of emergency department
Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital has completed its emergency department expansion, doubling its square footage. -
Emergency Psychiatric Care That Finally Works for Patients
In May 2022, the New York Times reported on a heartbreaking situation unfolding at a local emergency department (ED). -
Baystate Health urges selective ER use ahead of Memorial Day Weekend
Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health is urging people with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 infections to avoid its emergency rooms unless they are seriously ill to preserve capacity and resources over the Memorial Day weekend, MassLive reported May 27. -
Mission Health to open 2 ERs
Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health has received certificate of need approval for two new emergency rooms in Western North Carolina. -
Crozer Health, Pennsylvania county reach settlement over behavioral health closures
Delaware County of Pennsylvania and Springfield, Pa.-based Crozer Health have reached a settlement to keep behavioral health services running through at least Aug. 31, the Delaware County Daily Times reported May 26. -
New York children's hospital wants to build $6.6M high-risk maternity unit
Buffalo, N.Y.-based Oishei Children's Hospital submitted a certificate of need to the state's department of health to open a high-risk maternity unit as it experiences a growth in deliveries. -
McLaren hospital to end labor, delivery services
Citing a 20 percent decrease in births this year and other factors, McLaren St. Luke's Hospital in Maumee, Ohio, said it will discontinue labor and delivery services. -
Iowa county says its hospitals are operating at limited capacity
Hospitals in Polk County, Iowa, are operating at a limited capacity while they deal with rising COVID-19 cases and staff shortages, officials said May 25. -
Texas hospitals treat at least 14 injured in school shooting
Hospitals in the San Antonio area treated more than a dozen people injured in a May 24 shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. -
Staff shortage forces Alaska hospital to halt inpatient care for 2nd time
For the second time this spring, Kanakanak Hospital in Dillingham, Alaska, has stopped accepting inpatients because of a workforce shortage. -
Boston hospital to cut services, 118 jobs in July
Tufts Medical Center in Boston is eliminating 118 jobs when it closes pediatric beds in July, according to a notice filed with state regulators. -
Police: 94-year-old fatally shoots wife at Missouri hospital
Police say a 94-year-old man shot and killed his wife May 22 at Barnes-Jewish St. Peters (Mo.) Hospital, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. -
Baptist Health hospital to pause maternity services
Baptist Nassau, part of Jacksonville, Fla.-based Baptist Health, will temporarily pause its maternity services May 31. -
Travel nurse costs to leave 2 Wyoming hospitals without obstetric services
Within the span of a few weeks, two Wyoming hospitals will cut labor and delivery services due to staff shortages and increased costs from employing travel nurses, Wyoming Public Media reported May 20. -
Delivering Hospital-at-Home Services to Achieve Whole-Person Care
According to a recent survey of more than 130 CEOs, hospitals are growing their business lines to provide approximately 20% more services outside of the hospital and/or in the home than in 2021. The survey, from the University of Colorado Denver and Guidehouse, revealed creative steps health system leaders are taking to implement change by prioritizing caregiver and consumer satisfaction. -
Hasbro Children's ED under capacity strain from COVID-19, mental health crisis
The emergency department at Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence, R.I., is experiencing overcrowding fueled by a rise in COVID-19 cases and treatment for mental health issues, The Boston Globe reported May 19. -
Idaho health system cuts behavioral services amid staffing shortages
Citing staff shortages and financial woes, Kootenai Health in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, is scaling back some behavioral health services, according to KXLY. -
Colorado hospital to close psychiatric unit
Pueblo, Colo.-based Parkview Health System will close its 25-bed inpatient adult psychiatric unit at Parkview Medical Center because of a decline in patients, The Pueblo Chieftain reported May 17. -
Ochsner Mississippi hospital to end labor and delivery services
New Orleans-based Ochsner Health will close its labor and delivery department at Ochsner Medical Center in Bay St. Louis, Miss., at the end of May, the Sun Herald reported May 17.
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