Care Coordination

Hackensack Meridian Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank, N.J., part of Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health, evacuated patients July 20 after two air-conditioning units went offline, which affected the emergency department and intensive care unit.

Citing workforce challenges, Crozer Health said it will cut overnight and weekend hours at its behavioral health crisis center at Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland, Pa., if there isn't enough staff on a shift, according to a July 20 statement.

Davis Regional Medical Center in Statesville, N.C., plans to eliminate most patient services by the end of the year as it transitions to a specialty hospital focused on inpatient behavioral healthcare, the Iredell Free News reported.

While capacity issues are not new in recent years, many hospitals in Washington state are currently "dramatically over capacity" and grappling with more strains from delayed discharges and staff shortages than previously during the COVID-19 pandemic, the state's healthcare leaders…

As hospitals across the U.S. face workforce shortages, several have had to halt services. 

With the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wade, physicians, hospitals and health systems fearful of violating state restrictions on abortion are delaying some lifesaving pregnancy care, The Washington Post reported July 16.

Beverly (Mass.) Hospital is being urged by members of Congress from Massachusetts to hold off on closing its birth center, according to a July 13 announcement on Sen. Elizabeth Warren's website. 

The number of transplantation operations, both for solid organs and stem cells, has increased steadily for over a decade. Every transplantation requires comprehensive testing of both donor and recipient, and recipients require regular and frequent testing for infectious disease, involving…

Cleveland-based University Hospitals is scaling back care at two hospitals and consolidating services. 

Stafford Conn.-based Johnson Memorial Hospital plans to close its labor and delivery, intensive care and medical/surgical units, and end surgical services, according to a press release from the Trinity Health Network of New England and reported by The Connecticut News…