Cases of children facing mental health crises have surged over the last year in Minnesota, with many waiting days or weeks in ill-equipped hospital emergency departments before they can receive appropriate treatment, the Star Tribune reported May 17. 

While Houston is one of America's largest metro areas and among the nation's "best hospital cities," its East Houston area is a hospital desert, according to Click2Houston.com.

PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center rescheduled surgeries May 11-12 after experiencing "unprecedented patient volume" in its emergency department, the Bellingham, Wash.-based hospital's CMO said in a statement shared with Becker's. As of May 13, all the capacity issues were resolved, a spokesperson told Becker's.

Paradise Valley Hospital in National City, Calif., will close its obstetrics, labor and delivery and newborn nursing units by Aug. 4, according to a recent hospital notice. The closures will affect about 40 employees.

New York City's 2014 paid sick leave mandate was tied to a decrease in emergency department and specialist visits, and more primary care use, according to a study published May 6 in JAMA Health Forum. 

In 2018, about 2.4 million emergency department visits involved older Americans with injuries, more than 90 percent of which stemmed from unintentional falls, according to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published May 7.

Hospitals in Maine are seeing near-record levels of intensive care demands for COVID-19 patients despite an overall lower patient count, according to a May 6 report in the Portland Press Herald.

Franciscan Health plans to cut 218 inpatient beds at its 100-year-old hospital in Hammond, Ind., according to The Times of Northwest Indiana.

Doctors Hospital of Sarasota has resolved a dispute with the Florida Department of Transportation over its use of a D9-2 hospital symbol sign directing people to a standalone emergency room, according to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

The Southern Plains Medical Center-Pauls Valley (Okla.) opened under a new owner April 28, according to News 9.

Austin, Texas-based Dell Children's Medical Center, part of Ascension health system, has opened a specialty pediatric pavilion housing cardiac and cancer programs, the hospital said April 30. 

Federal data collected during the COVID-19 pandemic suggests that the number of adults reporting symptoms of anxiety or depression has risen, while in-person behavioral health access has decreased, an analysis released April 30 from the Government Accountability Office found. 

Fairbanks (Alaska) Memorial Hospital has hit a record number of COVID-19 hospitalizations, with the city's positivity rate doubling since March, according to The New York Times. 

Four major for-profit hospital operators have posted patient volume results for the first quarter of 2021: 

Community HealthCare System will close the emergency room and all inpatient beds at its hospital facility in St. Marys, Kan. 

Several Michigan hospitals that postponed elective surgeries over the past few weeks due to a surge in COVID-19 cases are largely back on track. 

Several healthcare organizations have closed medical departments or ended services to shore up finances, focus on more in-demand services or prevent patient care lapses. 

Steamboat Emergency Center, a freestanding physician-owned emergency room in Steamboat Springs, Colo., will close April 30. 

Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network said it will close its outpatient center in New Kensington, Pa., May 11.

Twenty-four hospitals in Michigan hit 90 percent patient capacity or higher April 14, Joneigh Khaldun, MD, emergency physician and chief medical executive of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, told ABC affiliate WJRT.