Category: Care Coordination

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

Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital has completed its emergency department expansion, doubling its square footage.

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…

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

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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. 

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