Employees at WellStar Atlanta Medical Center South in East Point, Ga., received less than one week's notice that the hospital's operating room is shutting down, according to Atlanta TV station WXIA.

Kenmore (N.Y.) Mercy Hospital, part of Buffalo, N.Y.-based Catholic Health, said it is discontinuing its voluntary lung health maintenance program.

The governor of Georgia issued a state of emergency Dec. 13 after flooding damaged 222 inpatient rooms at Atlanta-based Grady Memorial Hospital, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution. 

A neurologist group in Pismo Beach, Calif., that serves more than 5,300 patients abruptly closed in late November, according to the San Luis Obispo Tribune.

The shuttered Community Hospital of Long Beach (Calif.) is expected to reopen to patients in 2020, according to The Long Beach Post. 

Atlanta-based Grady Memorial Hospital has been diverting patients to other hospitals since a water pipe burst at the facility Dec. 7, reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Citing citing serious violations of the state health law, Pennsylvania's health department ordered Ellwood City (Pa.) Medical Center to cease inpatient and emergency services last week, according to KDKA, a Pittsburgh-based CBS affiliate. 

A patient and three medics were injured after an IU Health ambulance collided with a semitruck in Blackford County, Ind., according to local news station WRTV.

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital evacuated part of its emergency department Nov. 25 due to a potential hazmat situation, reports NBC Connecticut.

Healdsburg (Calif.) District Hospital was one of three hospitals that closed in October due to the Kincade fire. While the other two hospitals reopened within days of the fire risk passing, Healdsburg District Hospital was shut down for nearly a month, according to The Press Democrat.

Anderson, S.C.-based AnMed Health Medical Center placed a discharged homeless patient in an Uber with no final destination set other than a nearby pharmacy, reports The Greenville News.

Erlanger Western Carolina Hospital in Murphy, N.C., will discontinue gynecology and obstetrics services next month, according to North Carolina Health News.

Two people were fatally shot Nov. 25 outside a Durham, N.C.-based medical clinic affiliated with the University of North Carolina, according to USA Today.  

The emergency room of North Memorial Health Hospital in Robbinsdale, Minn., was on lockdown for about two hours after a brawl erupted Nov. 21, a spokesperson confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.

Providence, R.I.-based Miriam Hospital went on a brief diversion Nov. 20 due to a possible fentanyl exposure, according to CBS and MyNetworkTV affiliate WPRI 12. 

Puyallup, Wash.-based MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital is canceling more than 140 elective surgeries after flecks of plastic were found on some surgical trays, according to local news station KIRO 7.

Five people were taken to Valencia, Calif.-based Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital after a Nov. 14 shooting at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, Calif., according to the Los Angeles Times.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic will stop providing surgical services at two of its Minnesota hospitals, according to The Mankato Free Press.

As the use of air ambulances declined from 2008-17, the cost of an air ambulance trip more than doubled, according to a Health Care Cost Institute analysis published Nov. 7. 

Police found two explosive devices at Ascension NE Wisconsin Mercy Hospital in Oshkosh on Nov. 6, according to the Oshkosh Northwestern.