Category: Care Coordination

A California physician plans to offer abortions via a boat-based clinic in federal waters to bypass states where the procedure is banned or limited, KCBS Radio reported July 8.

COVID-19 hospitalizations have steadily increased to reach the highest national average since early March, with more than 33,000 people in U.S. hospitals with coronavirus on a given day.

Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare’s Windham Hospital has been denied its initial request to close the site’s labor and delivery unit, Connecticut Public reported July 7.

Tenet Healthcare’s Framingham, Mass.-based MetroWest Medical Center will continue to offer its oncology services, at least for the time being, NBC Boston reports. 

Ascension St. Vincent gave one day’s notice that it was closing 11 immediate care centers by the end of the day June 30, according to the Indianapolis Star.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has scheduled a public hearing next month regarding Beverly (Mass.) Hospital’s plans to permanently close its freestanding birth center in September because of staffing shortages.

Many states with strong legal protections for abortion — such as California and Illinois — are preparing for a surge in patients whose home states have or are planning to ban the medical procedure.

A group of U.S. senators announced on June 27, 2022, that they would block the appointment of a commission that would review the closing of some Veterans Affairs hospitals. 

BHSH System, the 22-hospital organization formed by the February merger of Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Spectrum Health with Southfield, Mich.-based Beaumont Health, said it has evolved its approach on abortion.

Hazel Crest, Ill.-based Advocate South Suburban Hospital is cutting labor and delivery services and investing $20 million in an inpatient behavioral health unit.