Avera Granite Falls (Minn.) Health Center is ending labor and delivery services as it moves to a shared regional model for this care, according to a news release shared with Becker's Oct. 19.

Urbana, Ill.-based Carle Foundation Hospital filed a petition with state regulators seeking to make its 36 temporary COVID-19 beds permanent, the News-Gazette reported Oct. 19.

Provident Hospital on Chicago's South Side is set to begin accepting ambulance patients again on Oct. 19 after pausing the service back in 2011, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. 

Four days after Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center closed its emergency department, nearby hospitals' patient volumes are steadily rising. 

Safety net hospitals are not the only medical facilities that could suffer from Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center's imminent closure. Smaller local clinics are also prepping for an increased patient load, radio station WSB reported Oct. 16. 

Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Children's Hospital will now provide neonatal support at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Stockton, Calif.

The 499-bed University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington is struggling to serve a high volume of patients and is redirecting non-emergent cases elsewhere, NBC affiliate WPTZ reported Oct. 17. 

The emergency room in Lake Placid, N.Y., could soon close, according to an Oct. 13 report from Lake Placid News.

HCA Florida Fawcett Hospital in Port Charlotte has reopened its operating rooms and some additional services following damage from Hurricane Ian, ABC affiliate WWSB reported Oct. 17. 

Hospitals across the country are seeing a significant surge of respiratory syncytial virus, NBC News reported Oct. 14. 

Two Wisconsin health systems — Froedtert Health in Wauwatosa and ThedaCare in Neenah — have joined forces to build two medical campuses including "micro-hospitals," the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Oct. 13. 

After Hurricane Ian, a team of 37 healthcare workers from Massachusetts treated 500 patients in emergency department tents set up outside of Sarasota Memorial Hospital's Venice (Fla.) campus. 

Smoke from a kitchen fire filled Peoria, Ill.-based UnityPoint Health-Proctor hospital Oct. 13, but no injuries were reported, according to the Peoria Journal Star. 

Prisma Health's Tuomey Hospital in Sumter, S.C., is expanding its emergency department by 13,000 square feet in order to accommodate more patients, ABC Columbia 25 reported Oct. 13.

Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center closed its emergency department Oct. 14 in preparation to shutter completely Nov. 1, leaving local residents worried and nearby hospitals scrambling. 

The University of New Mexico in Albuquerque is seeking a $36 million general obligation bond for a new pediatric psychiatric center, which the city's residents will vote on this November, KOB4 reported Oct. 12. 

Kealakekua, Hawaii-based Kona Community Hospital is no longer accepting new patients in its medical oncology and chemotherapy infusions clinics due to staff shortages, the Hawaii Tribune-Herald reported Oct. 13.

Danville, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare Sacred Heart Medical Center will temporarily close its birthing center Oct. 18 because of staffing shortages, Commercial-News reported Oct. 13. 

Austin, Texas-based Suvida Healthcare launched Oct. 12 with a growth capital investment from New York-based General Atlantic and Town Hall Ventures.

St. Vincent Charity Medical Center in Cleveland is transitioning its orthopedic services to Akron, Ohio-based Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Center.