Black and Hispanic patients are more likely to be transported by ambulance to an emergency department at a safety-net hospital than white patients living in the same zip code, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open.

Hospital management briefly evacuated patients and staff from a single building at San Diego VA Medical Center due to a gas leak on Sept. 5, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune.

An online hate crime threat to an undisclosed Pittsburgh hospital "was extremely disruptive" to healthcare workers across the city, Pittsburgh Police spokesperson Chris Togneri said, according to TribLive.

Hundreds of disabled patients end up stuck for months in Washington hospitals despite having no acute medical issues, because the state lacks community-based options, according to NPR member station KUOW.

Atlanta-based Grady Memorial Hospital has expanded its ambulance services and established a for-profit business to maintain ambulances, which some experts say may bend the rules for nonprofit organizations, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Pauls Valley (Okla.) Regional Medical Center, which closed last October, may soon reopen as an urgent care center, according to the Pauls Valley Daily Democrat.

A patient was stranded at her physician's office in Michigan for almost four hours after the medical transport ride she scheduled did not arrive, reports Local 4 WDIV Detroit.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic Health System will close its primary care clinic in La Crescent, Minn., on Nov. 22, according to the Star Tribune.

More services were eliminated Aug. 23 at Philadelphia-based Hahnemann University Hospital as part of the hospital's gradual closure, according to the Philly Voice. 

Patients revisiting the hospital within 30 days of initial discharge increasingly receive care in emergency departments and observation stays, marking a shift that may reflect hospitals' efforts to avoid CMS penalties for readmissions, according to a study published Aug. 12 in the BMJ.

An 82-year-old man shot and killed himself Aug. 21 in the emergency room at Wheeling (W.Va.) Hospital, according to The Intelligencer.

California's Department of Public Health will move dozens of permanent beds from a long-term residential program at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital to a short-term program in another part of the hospital, according to The San Francisco Examiner.

Glens Falls (N.Y.) Hospital will no longer provide outpatient behavioral healthcare for patients in New York's Warren and Washington counties, according to The Post Star.

An increasing number of patients without guardians are staying in Maryland emergency departments for months, even though they don't require emergency care, according to The Capital Gazette.

Americans living in rural communities are struggling to access emergency care after a slew of hospital closures, according to a joint report from NPR and Kaiser Health News.

The emergency department services were officially terminated at Philadelphia-based Hahnemann University Hospital on Aug. 16 as part of the hospital's gradual closure process, according to a local ABC affiliate.

Temple University's hospital and health sciences campus were placed on lockdown Wednesday evening when a gunman blocks away fired shots from a home that wounded six Philadelphia police officers after they attempted to serve a narcotics warrant, resulting in a 7 ½-hour standoff, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

A man with an assault rifle opened fire at a Chicago-based Veterans Affairs hospital Aug. 12, prompting a lockdown, reports Chicago Tribune.

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating whether an air ambulance pilot fell asleep while transporting a patient to a Boston-area hospital, reports CBS affiliate WBZ.

Rogers-based Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas will close three clinics by the end of September, according to TV station KFSM.