Care Coordination

Despite many rural hospitals closing for good nationwide for financial reasons, Haywood County Memorial Hospital in Tennessee recently reopened, radio station WPLN reported Aug. 21. 

Grand Marais, Minn.-based North Shore Health may have to close its nursing facility for older adults and end ambulance services due to a staffing shortage, radio station WTIP reported Aug. 22. 

Watertown, N.Y.-based Samaritan Medical Center will close its imaging and lab center for two days due to a staff shortage, CBS affiliate WWNY reported Aug. 21. 

Emergency department data from hospitals across North Carolina indicate an elevated rate of pediatric patients needing psychiatric care, according to an Aug. 22 report in North Carolina Health News.

Davis Regional Medical Center in Statesville, N.C., will permanently close its emergency department Aug. 24, according to an article published on iredellfreenews.com.

HCA Florida Fort Walton-Destin Hospital and the Okaloosa (Fla.) County School District are joining forces to launch the Health Academy of Northwest Florida.

Rochester, N.H.-based Frisbie Memorial Hospital CEO Tim Jones on Aug. 16 detailed for the City Council a new plan to deal with declining birth services, according to the Foster's Daily Democrat.

San Diego County is the first in the nation where every eligible hospital earned geriatric emergency department accreditation from the American College of Emergency Physicians, according to an Aug. 18 post on the University of California San Diego News Center…

A Novant hospital in North Carolina narrowly avoided termination of its Medicare contract Aug. 12 by hiring hundreds of nurses to address issues state inspectors identified in June, according to an Aug. 17  report from WECT News 6. Most of…

Greenwood (Miss.) Leflore Hospital remains closed a second day after a shutdown prompted by clogged sewer lines, the Enterprise Journal reported Aug. 16.