Tufts Medical Center in Boston is planning to transition physicians as it prepares to close inpatient services for children by the end of June, according to public radio station WBUR.

Lakeside Medical Center will close its baby-delivery unit because of a decline in births in recent years, The Palm Beach Post reported June 21.

Several hospitals are scaling back services for a variety of reasons, including financial challenges and staffing issues. 

Los Angeles City Councilmember Mitch O'Farrell urged billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD, to reopen St. Vincent Medical Center to provide acute care for the homeless population, the Los Angeles Times reported June 14.

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Trinity Health of New England's 92-bed hospital in Stafford, Conn., suspended inpatient and outpatient surgeries June 9 due to a staffing shortage, the Journal-Inquirer reported.

Livingston (Mont.) HealthCare reopened June 15 after flood water forced the hospital campus to shut down. 

Coos Bay, Ore.-based Bay Area Hospital will keep its inpatient behavioral health unit open after advocacy from nurses, community members and elected officials, KCBY reported June 13.

The Massachusetts Nurses Association is showing its opposition to Beverly (Mass.) Hospital's plans to permanently close its freestanding birth center in September because of staffing shortages, The Salem News reported June 13.

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The New York Department of Health rejected Monticello, N.Y.-based Garnet Health Medical Center-Catskills' request to close its 10-bed critical care unit, Mid Hudson News reported June 10.

Pardee UNC Health Care buildings in Hendersonville, N.C., were put under a temporary lockdown June 8 in response to a threatening phone call.

Several hospitals are scaling back inpatient services or ending inpatient care. 

Minneapolis-based Allina Health is making a series of changes, including consolidating hospitals and scaling back services, the Star Tribune reported June 7.

Some Pennsylvania hospitals say closures and service reductions within Springfield, Pa.-based Crozer Health and West Reading, Pa.-based Tower Health have led to overrun emergency departments and other capacity strain at their facilities, NPR affiliate  WHYY News reported June 7. 

Billings, Mont.-based Billings Clinic opened a 26-bed intermediate care unit June 6 that will be a bridge between the intensive care unit and the medical-surgical units.

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Watertown (Wis.) Regional Medical Center is now accepting patients transferred via ambulance and helicopter from other hospitals. 

Lewiston-based Central Maine Medical Center reopened its special care nursery and pediatric inpatient unit after closing them in October due to staff shortages, the Sun Journal reported June 2.

On the last day of 2021, Centura Avista Adventist Hospital CEO Isaac Sendros took off work to go on a skiing trip with his family. As they were heading to the mountain, he got a call from the hospital's facilities director letting him know there was a wildfire outside Boulder, Colo., threatening their hospital.