A patient in police custody escaped from Houston-based Ben Taub Hospital Jan. 15, reports KHOU.

All inpatient services, including emergency and surgical care, will end at UPMC Susquehanna Sunbury (Pa.) on Jan. 31, according to The Daily Item. 

Advocate Medical Group is closing its clinics in seven Chicago-area Walgreens stores on Feb. 15, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Many Chicago hospitals are preparing for an increase in emergency room visits linked to marijuana after Illinois legalized recreational use of the drug Jan. 1, reports the Chicago Tribune.

Atlanta-based Grady Memorial Hospital, one of Georgia's largest emergency rooms, will operate at a reduced capacity for most of 2020, NPR's affiliate radio station WABE reports. 

Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health has partnered with Lyft to offer its patients and employees customized transportation programs.

A 25-year-old woman who sought care at Milwaukee-based Froedtert Hospital's emergency room and left to find quicker access to care, died soon after, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report.

Local healthcare services are working to coordinate care while Atlanta-based Grady Memorial Hospital operates at reduced capacity more than a month after a burst water pipe flooded the facility, according to NPR's affiliate radio station WABE. 

Missouri health regulators have told Pinnacle Regional Hospital in Booneville, Mo., to stop performing surgery until its sterile processing unit is upgraded, according to KCUR.

As today’s healthcare system evolves in response to clinical, economic, and political pressures, the role of Emergency Departments (EDs) is evolving as well.

Local hospitals were notified of a "mass casualty event" Jan. 4 after a bus accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike left five dead and 60 injured, local CBS affiliate KDKA-TV reports. 

A 10-bed microhospital that Allegheny Health Network planned to open in early January won't open until the end of the month, according to Trib Live.

Southern Plains Medical Group plans to open an urgent care center in the closed Pauls Valley (Okla.) Regional Medical Center on Jan. 2, according to the Pauls Valley Democrat. 

Three unrelated lockdowns at hospitals in Florida, North Carolina and Virginia this weekend underscore the continued threat of violence in hospitals. 

A nurse-led program implemented in Volusia County, Fla., is helping redirect 911 calls for non-emergency situations and reduce ambulance dispatches, according to The Daytona Beach News-Journal.

Schenectady, N.Y.-based Ellis Medicine will no longer operate a surgery program at its McClellan Street Health Center in Schenectady, according to Spectrum News.

The Regional Medical Center in Orangeburg, S.C. is closing its primary care practice Jan. 17, according to local newspaper T&D.

In January, Allegheny Health Network will close an oncology clinic that UPMC was set to purchase in March, requiring UPMC to address the abrupt discontinuation of cancer services for patients.

Virginia hospitals are helping treat at least 51 people who were injured in a 69-vehicle pileup on Interstate 64 Dec. 22,  The New York Times reports.

Concord (N.H.) Hospital diverted five emergency room patients to other medical centers Dec. 18 after a clogged drain caused a sewer backup and water drainage issue, according to the Concord Monitor.