Category: Care Coordination

Cleveland, Texas-based Emergency Hospital Systems is combining two hospitals it owns, effective April 29, Bluebonnet News reported April 25.

Police said Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago was put under a temporary lockdown April 24 after someone made a threatening phone call to the facility, according to NBC 5 Chicago.

Several hospitals are scaling back inpatient services or ending inpatient care. 

Springfield, Pa.-based Crozer Health will end some substance abuse and mental health services in June due to challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, NPR affiliate WHYY reported April 21.

Tampa, Fla.-based Shriners Hospitals for Children is transitioning its Springfield, Mass., campus into an outpatient clinic model, NBC/CW affiliate WWLP reported April 20.

An emergency ordinance introduced April 19 would require hospitals to give written notice to a Pennsylvania county health department at least 180 days in advance of a unit or hospital closure, NPR affiliate WHYY reported.

Environmental and engineering teams of William Beaumont Army Medical Center in Fort Bliss, Texas, “strongly believe” its water contamination was caused by a valve failure in the hospital’s water softener system. The problem is being fixed, officials say.

Houston-based Harris Health reported zero COVID-19 patients for the first time since the onset of the pandemic, the system said April 15. 

Kanakanak Hospital in Dillingham, Alaska, has stopped accepting inpatients because of a staffing shortage, according to KDLG. 

Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health and Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health both received state approval to add beds to some of their facilities, NPR affiliate WFAE reported April 13.