Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White Health plans to close three physician clinics in Texas on July 6. 

Healthcare officials have asked Los Angeles County leaders to reopen a COVID-19 surge hospital that recently closed and to open a second surge hospital, according to the Los Angeles Daily News. 

Baptist Health-North Little Rock (Ark.) evacuated its flooded emergency department early June 14 after a patient broke a sprinkler head in the department's bathroom, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

A security guard and psychiatric patient at Community Hospital in Munster, Ind., were killed Tuesday after another security guard fired at the patient who had the guard in a chokehold, according to local news website WDRB.com.  

Massena (N.Y.) Hospital will close its maternity unit and its after-hours emergency surgery unit on July 12, according to TV station WWNY. 

Butler (Pa.) Health System said it will lay off 57 workers, furlough 10 positions and close its skilled nursing facility to help offset the financial hit from the COVID-19 pandemic. 

A patient and security officer died Tuesday in a shooting at Community Hospital in Munster, Ind., according to the Chicago Tribune.

The body of a 62-year-old man, who has been missing for five weeks, was found dead June 13 in the stairwell of a building on the campus of a VA hospital in Bedford, Mass., according to WBZ-TV. 

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 five that have announced or completed closures in the last month. 

Baton Rouge (La.) General's Mid City campus will reopen its emergency room June 15 for the first time since it closed in 2015. 

CMS is encouraging healthcare organizations to reopen facilities for nonemergency care and released a new set of guidelines and considerations for them to follow.

As we move into post-peak pandemic phases throughout the country, hospitals are focused on quickly and safely ramping up their elective procedures, which account for about half of their revenues.

Arizona could run out of hospital beds in just a few weeks as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations surge, a public health expert told NBC affiliate 12News.

The need to respond to medical emergencies at protest sites is creating unprecedented working conditions for emergency medical services teams already burdened by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Kaiser Health News.

Emergency department volume fell 49 percent between January and April, with facilities in urban areas seeing the largest drop, according to an analysis from the Emergency Department Benchmarking Alliance.

In response to challenges exposed by COVID-19, Salem (Ore.) Health plans to restructure, which will include health clinic closures and leadership changes, according to OregonLive.

Emergency room visits were down by more than 40 percent in April due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new CDC report.

At the height of the coronavirus surge in New York City, NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center found itself in a situation where demand for intensive care unit beds far exceeded its capacity, leading the hospital to convert operating rooms and other units into ICUs, physicians from the hospital wrote in an article for the New England Journal of Medicine.

Clinch Memorial Hospital in Homerville, Ga., evacuated patients, staff and visitors June 2 due to a chemical spill near the facility on Highway 84, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Kettering Health Network has permanently closed the operating rooms at Greene Memorial Hospital in Xenia, Ohio, according to the Dayton Daily News.