Category: Care Coordination

Cleveland-based University Hospitals is scaling back care at two hospitals and consolidating services. 

Stafford Conn.-based Johnson Memorial Hospital plans to close its labor and delivery, intensive care and medical/surgical units, and end surgical services, according to a press release from the Trinity Health Network of New England and reported by The …

Williamston, N.C.-based Martin General Hospital said it will close its intensive care unit temporarily on Aug. 1, WITN, an NBC affiliate, reported July 12. 

Several hospitals are scaling back services for a variety of reasons, including financial challenges and staffing issues. 

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.