Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth is permanently closing five clinics and services, KLCC reported May 24.

Wilson (N.C.) Medical Center has successfully had its immediate jeopardy designation removed, a spokesperson told Becker's.

Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health has been selected to pilot a new care delivery model created by CMS that aims to reduce unnecessary emergency department visits and associated costs for Medicare patients. 

Rural healthcare is under threat nationwide: 170 rural hospitals have closed since 2005, and hundreds more are at risk. To preserve vital services and healthcare access, leaders say a wide range of actions and strategies are needed. 

Welch (W.Va.) Community Hospital is looking to close its long-term care unit, according to the West Virginia health department.

Hospitals are employing a range of different measures to address capacity challenges and reduce emergency department wait times. 

Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth is ending comprehensive outpatient palliative care May 26 and reducing staff to one nurse and one social worker for in-home care, Cascadia Daily reported May 16.

The president of ProMedica Charles and Virginia Hickman Hospital in Adrian, Mich., recently spoke about some of the ways the hospital is addressing capacity challenges and emergency room wait times in a podcast with WLEN Radio. 

New York City-based Mount Sinai Hospital was ordered to pay nurses a $127,000 penalty after an arbitrator found it had a "persistent pattern" of understaffing its neonatal intensive care unit, Politico reported May 17.

Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare is reopening its Danville birthing center in September and closing its labor and delivery services at OSF Heart of Mary Medical Center in Urbana. 

Massachusetts General Hospital has opened a "discharge lounge" — a new way the Boston-based hospital is alleviating capacity challenges. 

Current and former physicians at Northern Maine Medical Center fear the hospital's decision to end maternity services May 26 will lead to poor patient outcomes, according to Bangor Daily News. 

Leaders and community members in Carrollton, Ala., are calling for the reopening of Pickens County Medical Center after a woman believed to be suffering a heart attack died May 10 en route to a hospital more than 30 minutes away, WVUA reported May 12.

Hospitals near the southern U.S. border are preparing for a surge of patients as Title 42, the tighter policy of U.S. border enforcement enacted at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, comes to an end. 

COVID-19 upended many things in the healthcare sector — longer wait times, fewer beds and fewer staff to name a few. Now, as the public health emergency draws to a close May 11, the University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center is hoping to find a new normal — one that improves care for its patients, according to a May 10 NPR report.

Immigration-related Florida Senate Bill 1718 is now on Gov. Ron DeSantis' desk for signature and has drawn opposition from the state's healthcare providers.

When emergency strikes, what's more important than the ability to communicate effectively with all members of the response team — in and outside of your hospital? 

Florida healthcare providers and state lawmakers may be on a collision course over plans to force patients to reveal their immigration status, according to an April 28 WLRN report.

McCurtain Memorial Hospital in Idabel, Okla., has lifted its hard lockdown after a series of threats were made against the hospital and staff in recent weeks.

Starting May 8, Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health plans to temporarily redirect labor and delivery services from its Laurens County (S.C.) Hospital to another facility about 40 miles away, FOX Carolina reported.