Waterloo-based Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare-Iowa will end certain reproductive services to meet Catholic guidelines, according to local news station KWWL.

A California hospital that closed during the summer will not open by Jan. 1 as anticipated, according to the Press-Telegram.

The American Medical Association says it wants to improve national U.S. health next year by creating ways to treat chronic disease such as type 2 diabetes and hypertension.

Americans living in the census region known as the West North Central have the longest average travel time to the nearest hospital, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan fact tank based in Washington, D.C.

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center-Brenham (Texas) has suspended labor and delivery services until Dec. 21, according to The Banner-Press.

Timothy Fisher, MD, obstetrician and gynecologist at Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system will conduct a three-year investigation into why nine rural New Hampshire hospitals have closed maternity care units.

Nearly one-third of U.S. hospitals have violated emergency department care standards set by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act in the last decade, according to an investigative report from WebMD and Georgia Health News.

TeleTracking has partnered with Broward Health to power a Patient Logistics Center to streamline operations and help provide more efficient assistance to patients.  

Dallas-based Steward Health Care, a private, for-profit hospital operator, plans to reopen the former Florence (Ariz.) Hospital at Anthem, PinalCentral.com reported.

St. Joseph Hospital and Trumbull Memorial, both based in Warren, Ohio, are back to normal after both facilities received a bomb threat Dec. 3, according to WKBN 27.

An armed shooter pursued two individuals through Kansas City, Kan., and to the entrance of the Kansas City-based University of Kansas Medical Center on Dec. 3 before critically injuring one and fatally shooting himself, police said, according to The Kansas City Star.

In September, Providence Health System in Washington, D.C., owned by St. Louis-based Ascension, announced it would close its emergency room Dec. 5 and all acute care services by Dec. 14. Now, part of that closure has been pushed back, according to a WAMU news report.

Ambulance response times to cardiac arrest 911 calls are 10 percent longer in low-income areas, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Broward Sheriff's Office deputies shot and killed a patient at University Hospital in Tamarac, Fla., on Dec. 1.

Paradise, Calif.-based Adventist Health Feather River Hospital, a 101-bed facility that sustained significant damage during the deadly California Camp Fire in early November, plans to reopen "no matter what," according to the Chico Enterprise-Record.

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare closed Sister Emmanuel Hospital, a Miami-based long-term care hospital, Dec. 1.

Adventist Health Feather River Hospital in Paradise, Calif., shut down in early November after sustaining extensive damage from a wildfire, but the hospital is taking steps to reopen.

A natural gas leak forced Erie, Pa.-based UPMC Hamot to divert patients to other hospitals and move emergency room patients to other parts of the facility, according to a Go Erie news report.

Fayetteville, N.C.-based Cape Fear Valley Health is closing the ExpressCare urgent care center at the Cape Fear Valley Medical Center campus, hospital officials announced.

Many have likely heard about hospital deserts, those patches of mostly rural America where the last hospital has closed, forcing ambulances and patients to travel a hundred miles or more for emergency or routine care.