Several healthcare organizations recently closed medical units or terminated services to shore up finances, focus on more in-demand services or prevent patient care lapses. Here are 10 that have announced or completed closures in the last month:

Dothan, Ala.-based Flowers Hospital will end inpatient pediatric services in December, according to local news station WDHN.

A Tennessee hospital is preparing for a potential emergency event tied to the final presidential debate occurring in Nashville Oct. 21, reports NBC affiliate WSMV. 

Thirty-nine states across the U.S. are seeing an uptick in COVID-19 hospitalizations, prompting many of the states and their hospitals to take steps to address the new surges and related bed and staffing shortages. 

Wisconsin opened an alternative care facility for COVID-19 patients Oct. 14 as COVID-19 hospitalizations tripled statewide over the last month, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 

Eight Kansas City, Mo.-based hospitals and emergency departments had to refuse ambulances the night of Oct. 14 because they hit capacity, according to the Kansas City Star. 

Avera Health and Sanford Health, both based in Sioux Falls, S.D., are adjusting surgery plans to accommodate patient and staffing needs as COVID-19 surges, according to officials at the health systems.

University Hospital Summerville, a 231-bed hospital in Augusta, Ga., is converting its emergency department to an urgent care center by the end of the year, according to the Savannah Morning News. 

Patient visits for outpatient care have rebounded to levels seen before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund.

Paintball attacks have sent nearly a dozen people to the hospital with injuries in Chicago, reports local station WGN-TV.

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare will close the emergency department and end inpatient care at its hospital in Natick, Mass, Oct. 25, according to a statement to the community obtained by Becker's Hospital Review. 

A patient started a fire at Murfreesboro, Tenn.-based Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital this weekend, causing some damage to the facility, according to the Daily News Journal.

UPMC Lock Haven (Pa.) reopened Oct. 12, about one month after a fire prompted it to evacuate patients and shut down, according to PennLive.

One Brooklyn Health System has resumed its consolidation plan, which includes eliminating inpatient beds at one of its three hospitals, the New York health system confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review. 

Four Montana hospitals reported that they do not have any inpatient beds available, according to data released Oct. 7 by the Montana Department of Health and Human Services. 

Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Hospital reached 95 percent capacity in its intensive care unit Oct. 8 amid a major COVID-19 surge in the state, reports The Salt Lake Tribune.

A field hospital near Milwaukee will begin accepting COVID-19 patients next week, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers said Oct. 7. 

A patient was shot by police at West Carson, Calif.-based Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Oct. 6, according to NBC Los Angeles.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic Health System plans to close two part-time medical clinics by the end of 2020, according to the Austin Daily Herald. 

Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Mercy Health, part of Trinity Health, will close the emergency department at one of its hospitals in Muskegon, Mich., on Oct. 17.