A 61-year old man is in custody after he barricaded himself in a hospital room at Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center, where his mother was a patient, and with a gun reportedly in the room, according to a March 27 WNYT report.

Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center was on lockdown the afternoon of March 27 after a report of a person inside the hospital with a gun, Spectrum News reported.

A partnership with Greenville County, S.C., has allowed Prisma Health to reopen the emergency department at North Greenville Hospital in Travelers Rest, S.C., which closed in 2020 to care for COVID-19 patients. 

Stillbirth rates in the U.S. have been deemed "a major public health concern," according to a new report from the National Institutes of Health published March 15.

New York hospitals are struggling to reopen hundreds of psychiatric beds by the governor's April 1 deadline, Politico reported March 23.

Helen DeVos Children's Hospital will provide pediatric hospitalists and neonatal nurse practitioners to the Lansing, Mich., region through a partnership with  McLaren Greater Lansing Hospital. 

Palomar Medical Center Poway (Calif.), part of Escondido, Calif.-based Palomar Health, will close its labor and delivery unit in June, at least temporarily, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported March 21. 

A comatose woman will not be sent to the Dominican Republic by the Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest administration, The Morning Call reported March 10.

Pediatric care access has been in decline since even before the pandemic. Forty states saw declines in pediatric bed availability prior to 2020, according to CNN, and now compounding factors are exacerbating the issue.

A combination of a loss of pediatricians, changing demographics and some of the strictest abortion laws in the country is forcing Sandpoint, Idaho-based Bonner General Hospital to stop delivering babies, the hospital said in a news release.

Residency matches for the first class of OB-GYN applicants post-Roe v. Wade will soon be announced. Preliminary data from the American Association of Medical Colleges shows that 2023 applications for the specialty have fallen from 2022, according to Roll Call.

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont has proposed a bill to expand birthing care across the state after dozens of maternity health centers nationwide have shut their doors in recent years.

The only hospital in Manitowoc, Wis., a city of nearly 35,000 — Froedtert Holy Family Memorial Hospital — will stop all obstetrics care beginning June 1, according to Fox 11 News.

Around two-thirds of U.S. adults have not documented end-of-life medical care directives, but a new case study has found that Integris Health was successful in boosting documentation by 20 percentage points for patients over 65.

Brockton, Mass.-based Signature Healthcare, the system that owns a hospital that caught fire in February, opened two urgent care centers to provide outpatient services, radio station WBUR reported March 7.

Rochester, N.H.-based Frisbie Memorial Hospital will be allowed to discontinue labor and delivery services after a $2.75 million settlement agreement, Foster's Daily Democrat reported March 7.

Immigration activists are trying to stop a Pennsylvania hospital from sending a comatose woman back to the Dominican Republic, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported March 5.

Citing a lack of provider coverage, Ocean Springs, Miss.-based Singing River Health System said it will end obstetric services, which include labor and delivery, at Singing River Gulfport (Miss.), at least temporarily.

Most hospital emergency departments are not well-prepared to care for critically ill children, leading to preventable deaths and poor patient safety, NPR reported March 3.

Businesses can now offer employees a connection with Cleveland Clinic providers for additional insight into medical records and questions through the Ohio hospital's new program.