Category: Care Coordination

Livonia-based Trinity Health Michigan and Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan Health have partnered to expand pediatric specialty care at Trinity Health Oakland, a 497-bed hospital in Pontiac, Mich. 

Healthcare in Texas shows significant gaps in coverage, with nearly one-fourth of people not having access to a regular source of care, according to a new report from the University of Houston and Texas Southern University.

Emergency department visits related to sexual assault increased more than 1,533 percent from 2006 through 2019, according to a new study.

Providence, R.I.-based Brown University gifted $5 million to Care New England, also in Providence, to build a new labor and delivery center. 

Children’s hospitals across the country are increasingly operating at or beyond capacity as they struggle to treat an unrelenting surge of patients with respiratory illnesses.

Avera Granite Falls (Minn.) Health Center is ending labor and delivery services as it moves to a shared regional model for this care, according to a news release shared with Becker’s Oct. 19.

Urbana, Ill.-based Carle Foundation Hospital filed a petition with state regulators seeking to make its 36 temporary COVID-19 beds permanent, the News-Gazette reported Oct. 19.

Provident Hospital on Chicago’s South Side is set to begin accepting ambulance patients again on Oct. 19 after pausing the service back in 2011, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. 

Four days after Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center closed its emergency department, nearby hospitals’ patient volumes are steadily rising. 

Safety net hospitals are not the only medical facilities that could suffer from Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center’s imminent closure. Smaller local clinics are also prepping for an increased patient load, radio station WSB reported Oct. 16.