Category: Care Coordination

Baystate Health urges selective ER use ahead of Memorial Day Weekend

Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health is urging people with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 infections to avoid its emergency rooms unless they are seriously ill to preserve capacity and resources over the Memorial Day weekend, MassLive reported May…

Mission Health to open 2 ERs

Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health has received certificate of need approval for two new emergency rooms in Western North Carolina.

Crozer Health, Pennsylvania county reach settlement over behavioral health closures

Delaware County of Pennsylvania and Springfield, Pa.-based Crozer Health have reached a settlement to keep behavioral health services running through at least Aug. 31, the Delaware County Daily Times reported May 26.

New York children’s hospital wants to build $6.6M high-risk maternity unit

Buffalo, N.Y.-based Oishei Children’s Hospital submitted a certificate of need to the state’s department of health to open a high-risk maternity unit as it experiences a growth in deliveries.

McLaren hospital to end labor, delivery services

Citing a 20 percent decrease in births this year and other factors, McLaren St. Luke’s Hospital in Maumee, Ohio, said it will discontinue labor and delivery services. 

Iowa county says its hospitals are operating at limited capacity

Hospitals in Polk County, Iowa, are operating at a limited capacity while they deal with rising COVID-19 cases and staff shortages, officials said May 25.

Texas hospitals treat at least 14 injured in school shooting

Hospitals in the San Antonio area treated more than a dozen people injured in a May 24 shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. 

Staff shortage forces Alaska hospital to halt inpatient care for 2nd time

For the second time this spring, Kanakanak Hospital in Dillingham, Alaska, has stopped accepting inpatients because of a workforce shortage.

Security called more often on Black patients, hospital’s internal study finds

Black patients at Brigham and Women’s hospital in Boston experienced higher rates of security emergency responses compared to white patients, according to a study published May 13 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Boston hospital to cut services, 118 jobs in July

Tufts Medical Center in Boston is eliminating 118 jobs when it closes pediatric beds in July, according to a notice filed with state regulators.