Mayo Regional Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, will close its primary care office April 5, according to the Bangor Daily News.  

Twenty-nine percent of Lyft riders said they have used the ride-hailing app to access healthcare services, according to Lyft's 2019 economic impact report.

The Togus VA Medical Center in Augusta, Maine, is temporarily closing its dialysis center to outpatients due to a nursing shortage, CBS-affiliate TV station WGME reports.

One in three people hurt in electric scooter accidents require treatment in an emergency room, a study published in JAMA Network Open found.

First responders in Texas are using a new technology system that helps lower the risk of human dosage errors when giving medicine, NBC-affiliate TV station KAGS reports.

Federal government employees and contracted employees affected by the government shutdown are delaying medical appointments, requesting help through online fundraisers and considering new careers as they collect medical bills without receiving pay, Time reports.

As a growing number of rural hospitals stop providing planned baby deliveries, Minnesota patients in small towns are struggling to access care, public radio station KNOW reports.

A 64-year-old man shot and killed himself at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va., on Jan. 22, according to TV station WJLA, which cited a police report.

Federal workers furloughed during the government shutdown can get primary care appointments within 24 hours with Camden, N.J.-based Cooper University Health Care, according to the PhillyVoice.

Johnson City, Tenn.-based Ballad Health responded to questions from the Tennessee Department of Health regarding the health system's proposed changes for the neonatal intensive care unit, according to the Johnson City Press.

UPMC Pinnacle Lancaster in Pennsylvania closed a second hospital unit and is on track to cease all operations by March, a spokesperson confirmed to Lancaster Online.

Between 2014 and 2017, average wait times for outpatient care improved for three of four specialties in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, while those at private sector hospitals remained the same, according to a study published by JAMA.

Massachusetts became the first and only state to ban ambulance diversions in 2009, and other locations have moved to stop the potentially harmful practice of temporarily closing a facility to incoming ambulances, but it still occurs in most of the nation's largest cities, a review by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel found.

NorthShore University Evanston (Ill.) Hospital created a pilot program to help mental health patients access care sooner after an emergency department visit, reports the Chicago Tribune.

Fayetteville, N.C.-based Cape Fear Valley Health will permanently close Bladen County Hospital's Family Birth Center in Elizabethtown, N.C., reports WECT.

A study published in Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy examined whether incorporating pharmacists with an expanded scope into the community or hospital emergency departments could affect ED volume.

Harrington Hospital in Southbridge, Mass., is closing its 11-bed inpatient pediatric unit, according to a Worcester Business Journal report.  

The closing of a regional medical center in Knoxville, Tenn., has severely prolonged patient ER wait times, exacerbated an ambulance shortage and diverted firefighters from other potential emergencies as they wait on ambulances stalled at area ERs, NBC-affiliate TV station WBIR reports.

Six healthcare organizations recently shuttered medical units or terminated services in the last two months to shore up finances, focus on more in-demand services or improve patient care:

Bellaire, Ohio-based Belmont Community Hospital shuttered its behavioral health unit, according to the Wheeling News-Register.