One person is dead and another is in critical condition after an Oct. 2 shooting in the parking lot of Elmhurst (Ill.) Hospital, according to ABC 7 Chicago. 

Lakewood (Calif.) Regional Medical Center has borrowed a concept from Disneyland to ensure quicker access to care for patients being transferred into the facility from urgent care centers or physicians' offices.

With more than half of U.S. hospitals facing 30-day readmission penalties in fiscal year 2019, the hospital industry stands to lose an estimated $566 million, Kaiser Health News reported.

After Arizona Medicaid regulation changes allowed ride-sharing companies to provide nonemergency transportation, 15 percent of Medicaid rides involved Uber and Lyft this summer, according to Kaiser Health News. 

The husband of a woman who died just outside of the emergency department at CHA Somerville (Mass.) Hospital is advocating for new regulations on ED access, reports the Gloucester Daily Times.

A rehabilitation facility in Charlotte, N.C., allegedly placed an elderly dementia patient in a taxi upon his discharge and sent him to his son's locked and empty home, where he then wandered off, according to Fox 46 Charlotte. 

Employees at Garfield Memorial Hospital jumped into action after a bus crash sent 19 victims to the critical access hospital Sept. 20, reports local news station KSL TV.

TeleTracking Technologies, Inc. is hosting its Annual Client Conference October 20-23, 2019 in Miami, Florida featuring discussions, workshops, bootcamps, and a command center experience. 

Sacred Heart Medical Center-University District has been on a modified lockdown since the morning of Sept. 17, when a man allegedly made threats against staff members at the facility, reports The Register-Guard.

Tropical Depression Imelda dropped torrential rainfall on Southeastern Texas overnight, causing devastating flooding that forced a hospital to evacuate a dozen patients Sept. 19, according to ABC 13.

Here are five recent articles published by Becker's Hospital Review that look at newly released studies on emergency department use.

A hospital employee was killed Sept. 13 when a man crashed his truck into the emergency room of Diley Ridge Medical Center in Canal Winchester, Ohio, according to NBC News.

Hudson, N.Y.-based Columbia Memorial Hospital will stop delivering babies Oct. 1 due to a shortage of obstetricians, according to CBS 6.

Walmart has opened its new, standalone health clinic in Dallas, Ga. Today, the first patients will walk through its doors. 

Hospital stays for children in some of Cincinnati's poorest and unhealthiest neighborhoods fell under a new population health initiative to narrow equity gaps, according to a report published in Health Affairs.

Memphis, Tenn.-based Regional One Health is seeing uninsured emergency department visits drop under a new model that aims to help chronically ill patients navigate the safety-net system.

Williamston, N.C.-based Martin General Hospital will close its obstetrics unit Oct. 21, forcing women in the community to travel more than 30 miles to give birth, according to local news station WITN.

Hospitals, nursing homes and home health providers are creating new disaster protocols amid wildfire season in California, reports Kaiser Health News.

Richmond, Va.-based VCU Health recently identified its top quality concern for the 2020 fiscal year as decreasing mortality within the health system, which means lowering the failure to rescue events.

Emergency medicine physicians at Southfield, Mich.-based Beaumont Health are reporting a major uptick in patients presenting with depression and suicidal thoughts.