Two physicians were found dead at an Austin, Texas-based pediatric medical office after a hostage standoff, according to the Austin Police Department and local news reports.

Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health will end inpatient care and emergency services at its hospital in Norfolk, Va., by April 1.

Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health plans to close its outpatient center and satellite emergency care facility in Ware, Mass.

Santa Cruz Valley Regional Hospital in Green Valley, Ariz., has temporarily shut down its ICU wing, according to a Jan. 25 Green Valley News report. 

Hialeah (Fla.) Hospital, owned by Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, will close its maternity ward for good April 5, according to NBC Miami.

Olympia Medical Center in Los Angeles announced in December that it is shutting down March 31, but a recent deal could allow the hospital to stay open to help treat COVID-19 patients, according to Los Angeles Daily News. 

Atrium Health has deployed a mobile hospital to its Pineville location in Charlotte, N.C., to help with emergency department services, according to a Jan. 21 news release.

Physicians arrived at Heights Hospital in Houston Jan. 19 to find the locks had been changed and they had no way of entering the facility. Instead of turning patients away, some physicians tried to treat patients in the parking lot. 

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said he will order hospitals to halt elective surgeries if COVID-19 vaccination rates don't speed up in the state, according to local news station WIS.

The Austin (Texas) Convention Center, now transformed into a field hospital, accepted its first three patients after opening Jan. 12, local NBC affiliate KXAN reports. 

Dignity Health's St. Rose Dominican San Martín campus in Las Vegas continues to provide alternate care sites and suspend elective surgeries after issuing a disaster declaration over the weekend, according to statements from the hospital.  

Our Chief Nursing Officer Lisa Romano shares her personal ordeal battling COVID-19 head on, both as a nurse and a patient. This article originally appeared in Barron’s.

Bradford (Pa.) Regional Medical Center is shifting acute care and surgical services to Olean (N.Y.) General Hospital and reducing its inpatient capacity from 107 beds to 10, according to the Olean Times Herald.

Guthrie Towanda (Pa.) Memorial Hospital ended surgical services Jan. 1 and shifted them to Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Pa., and Guthrie Corning (N.Y.) Hospital, according to WENY News. 

The Austin (Texas) Convention Center will likely be converted to a field hospital as local health officials predict intensive care units will soon reach capacity due to a surge in COVID-19 patients, the Austin American Statesman reported Jan. 6.

Arlington-based Texas Health Resources will postpone nonemergency surgeries at its 14 wholly owned hospitals across the state, according to The Dallas Morning News. 

Community Hospital Long Beach (Calif.) reopened Jan. 4 after closing in 2018, according to NBC Los Angeles. 

Olympia Medical Center, an Alecto Healthcare hospital in Los Angeles, said it will suspend all patient care services, including the emergency department and emergency medical services, so it can complete substantial renovations. 

As Los Angeles County faces a COVID-19 surge, paramedics in Southern California were given guidance Jan. 4 not to bring patients with little chance of survival to hospitals, according to NPR.

Rush Security Services and the Chicago Police Department investigated a glass window suspected to have been damaged by a bullet on the 14th floor of Rush University Medical Center, according to a hospital statement shared with Becker's Hospital Review.