A man in police custody was shot and killed Nov. 6 at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in Fayetteville, N.C., in a tussle to grab a deputy police officer's gun, local ABC News affiliate WTVD reports.  

Two hospitals in Santa Rosa, Calif., have reopened to patients after a wildfire forced the facilities to evacuate for at least a week, according to The North Bay Business Journal.

CMS introduced the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program in 2010 to encourage lower readmissions by penalizing hospitals with high rates.

Using a rapid assessment zone model in a high-volume emergency department can help reduce front-end bottlenecks, according to a study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.

A wildfire tearing through Northern California has prompted multiple patient evacuations throughout the region.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic will close its rural health clinic in Waukon, Iowa, on Dec. 14, according to the Post Bulletin.

In predominantly English-speaking settings, patients with limited English proficiency and chronic conditions had higher rates of emergency department revisits and hospital readmissions than English-proficient patients, according to a research letter published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. 

Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health is teaming up with West Health, a group of nonprofits dedicated to lowering healthcare costs for seniors, to open the first emergency department for seniors living in a rural area.

To ensure that no one will ever have to wait for the care they need—that’s the mission of TeleTracking—and why Living the Mission is the theme of TeleCon19. In fact, the general session opening video brought that to life in an inspiring way illustrating the results many of our client partners realize for their health systems—and most importantly for their patients.

In a recent press release, TeleTracking has announced some of the speakers joining TeleCon19, held October 20-23 in Miami, Florida. 

East Ohio Regional Hospital in Martins Ferry recently closed, but hospital signage on a nearby highway has not been removed or covered, reports The Times Leader.

More than 9,000 people received the flu shot at MIT Medical, a healthcare clinic affiliated with Cambridge-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology Oct. 3, according to MIT News. 

A California hospital that closed in 2018 is moving forward in the reopening process, according to the Press-Telegram.

A smell that left several staff members feeling "sick to their stomach" resulted in the shutting down of the operating room at University of Vermont Medical Center's Fanny Allen campus in Colchester last week, according to a VT Digger report.

North Tonawanda, N.Y.-based DeGraff Memorial Hospital will end inpatient services by the end of the year, according to Buffalo Business First. 

Roughly 800,000 Pacific Gas & Electric customers in Northern California had their electricity shut off Oct. 9 as part of a planned power outage by the state's largest utility, according to CNN.

Stanford (Calif.) Medicine conducted two dress rehearsals this summer to prepare staff for the move to the new $2 billion, seven-story Stanford Hospital, expected to open Nov. 17.

Lawmakers are urging federal regulators to investigate North Tampa Behavioral Health after the Tampa Bay Times published an investigative report about the Wesley Chapel, Fla.-based psychiatric hospital Sept. 18.

NYC Health + Hospitals, based in New York City, has enrolled 5,000 people in NYC Care, its $100 million per year healthcare access program.

When emergency departments close and add driving time to the next-closest ED, mortality rates can increase if nearby hospitals are already near capacity, according to a study published in Health Affairs.