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. 

Just nine days ahead of the end of the public health emergency in the U.S., Boston-based Tufts Medical Center became the first known hospital in the country with zero COVID-19-positive patients, WFXT, a Fox affiliate station, reported May 2.

McCurtain Memorial Hospital in Idabel, Okla., was placed on a hard lockdown May 1 after a shooting threat was made against staff, CEO Brian Whitfield wrote in a news release on the hospital's Facebook page.

Health systems have invested heavily in building comprehensive care networks.

Haitian migrants seeking refuge from crises in their own country in Massachusetts are sleeping overnight in Boston's major hospitals, putting more strain on hospital resources, CNN reported April 29.

McCurtain Memorial Hospital in Idabel, Okla. — a community that has been under a microscope since the release of recordings from a county meeting allegedly revealed racist and threatening statements — was evacuated after the second bomb threat called to the hospital in the last two weeks. 

Alta Vista Regional Hospital in Las Vegas, N.M., will end intensive care unit services, effective June 3, according to a hospital news release shared with Becker's. 

A fire at Greenville, S.C.-based Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital led to patient evacuations and closure of its outpatient building on April 26.

The closure of Upland, Pa.-based Crozer Health's Delaware County Memorial Hospital in suburban Philadelphia last fall has created a ripple effect across the region's healthcare system, CBS News reported April 24.

A man was arrested in connection to multiple fires found inside of Ocala-based HCA Florida West Marion Hospital and within the community, Fox 35 reported April 24.

A lockdown issued at Covenant Health Plainview (Texas) was lifted on the afternoon of April 19 after police determined there was "no immediate threat" to a caregiver who the facility had received threatening phone calls about. 

McCurtain Memorial Hospital in Idabel, Okla. — a community that has been under a microscope since the release of recordings from a county meeting allegedly revealed racist and threatening statements — has been cleared after a bomb threat that was made April 18.