Category: Care Coordination

Following the closure of the only crisis stabilization unit in Sonoma County, area hospitals are seeing a rise in mental health patients seeking care in their emergency departments, The Press Democrat reported Sept. 30. 

Labor and delivery services will return to WVU Medicine Uniontown (Pa.) Hospital in early 2025, following their termination in 2019.

Severe flooding, storm damage and power outages in the wake of Hurricane Helene continue to disrupt hospitals and their communities across the Southeast. The Category 4 storm made landfall Sept. 26 in Florida’s Big Bend region.

Mayo Clinic Health System in Fairmont, Minn., will permanently close its surgical and labor and delivery units, effective March 31, according to a news release shared with Becker’s.

Emergency rooms are the front-door to the U.S. healthcare system. A combination of systemic issues converge in ERs, leading to long wait times and inefficiencies for patients.

Hospitals and communities across the Southeast continue to assess and navigate the effects of Hurricane Helene, which made landfall Sept. 26 in Florida’s Big Bend region as a Category 4 storm.

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta “made history” by moving 202 patients in under 12 hours in one of the largest single-day pediatric hospital moves in the country, it said in a Sept. 29 news release.

Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region as a Category 4 storm Sept. 26, resulting in flooding and widespread power outages across the state. 

Hospitals across the northeastern Gulf Coast and Southeast are preparing for a “catastrophic and deadly storm surge” once Hurricane Helene makes landfall this week, CBS News reported Sept. 26. 

UW Health SwedishAmerican Hospital in Rockford, Ill., is rescheduling some surgeries due to a sterilization-related issue.