A patient shot by police Oct. 6 at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center has died from wounds suffered when he was shot, the Los Angeles Times reported Nov. 17. 

Wisconsin's field hospital has remained mostly empty since opening last month, despite rising hospitalizations across the state, reports local Madison TV station News 3 Now.

Catholic Health temporarily will close its emergency department at the Sisters of Charity Hospital, St. Joseph's Campus in Buffalo, N.Y.

Amid a surge in U.S. COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, a man with a brain mass was forced to travel from Missouri to Iowa for emergency surgery, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, is admitting anyone age 26 and under to help other hospitals in the area that are near capacity due to COVID-19, according to The Columbus Dispatch. 

The University of Kansas Health System in Kansas City started postponing some elective surgeries to free up inpatient beds, according to local news station KMBC.

St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare will postpone some elective surgery cases at all 15 of its hospitals and ambulatory care settings starting Nov. 16, according to a Nov. 15 company announcement. 

St. Luke's Health System in Boise, Idaho, will stop scheduling certain elective surgeries and procedures through Dec. 25, according to a company news release.

Citing an increased demand for inpatient beds, Ascension Genesys Hospital in Grand Blanc, Mich., will not schedule any new inpatient elective surgeries until at least Nov. 30, according to MLive. 

Baxter Regional Medical Center in Mountain Home, Ark., is temporarily halting nonemergency surgeries requiring an overnight stay amid an increase in employee and patient COVID-19 infections, according to KY3.

Renown Health has opened the ground floor of its alternate care site at Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nev., to serve more COVID-19 patients amid a virus surge, the health system said Nov. 12. 

Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, in Memphis, Tenn. has treated 109 children for bullet wounds so far this year, more than ever before, reports local NBC affiliate WMC. 

Cleveland Clinic extended the postponement of nonessential surgical cases that require an inpatient stay through Nov. 20.

Two people were killed in an explosion at the VA Medical Center in West Haven, Conn., on the morning of Nov. 13, according to TV station WFSB.

Provo-based Utah Valley Hospital is implementing new precautions after several conspiracy theorists attempted to sneak into the intensive care unit, reports NBC affiliate KSL-TV.

The proportion of children's mental health-related visits to hospital emergency departments rose substantially toward the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and remained elevated into October, according to a CDC analysis released Nov. 12.

Baxter County Regional Medical Center in Mountain Home, Ark., said Nov. 11 it will begin postponing nonemergency surgeries, according to local news station KY3.

Several major health systems in Oregon —  Legacy Health, Oregon Health & Sciences University and Kaiser Permanente Northwest — have started to limit elective surgeries due to an influx of COVID-19 hospitalizations, according to Oregon Live.

Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Spectrum Health has 14 hospitals nearing capacity amid a surge of COVID-19 cases, CEO Tina Freese Decker said during a media briefing Nov. 11.

Citing a significant increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations, Cleveland Clinic said it will postpone nonemergency surgeries for at least two days.