Morgantown-based WVU Hospitals has received certificate of need approval from the West Virginia Health Care Authority to add 32 beds to Fairmont (W.Va.) Medical Center. 

A man was shot and killed in a police-involved shooting April 12 at Westerville, Ohio-based Mount Carmel St. Ann's, the hospital and police said in a joint statement to Becker's. 

As children’s hospitals and large pediatric programs work toward recovery and stabilization, administrative and clinical leaders are assessing which elements of COVID-19 disruption and innovation are here to stay. Many children’s hospitals have begun to understand their continued volume depletion, attributing lost emergency department and inpatient volumes to the natural consequences of social distancing (e.g., reduced viral spread among pediatric patients) and additional reductions in inpatient utilization due to intentional strategies such as early discharge and outpatient shifts. 

A mechanical fire ignited at Saint Clare's Denville (N.J.) Hospital, prompting the evacuation of several patients from the emergency room April 12, NJ.com reported. 

Residents of a small Wyoming town are trying to build a hospital after the only one in their city stopped essential services like delivering babies and cut back on surgeries, according to an April 11 article published by The Wall Street Journal.

Several hospitals in Michigan are postponing some surgeries as COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients fill hospital beds, according to the Detroit Free Press.

Aspen Springs Psychiatric Hospital in Hermiston, Ore., is closing less than eight months after opening its doors.

Some hospitals in Michigan and Minnesota are nearing capacity as the states experience another COVID-19 surge. 

A patient died after falling from a fifth-floor window at Kaiser Permanente Zion Medical Center in Grantville, Calif., according to The San Diego Union-Tribune.

Buffalo, N.Y.-based Catholic Health plans to shutter its intensive care unit and end current inpatient services at its campus in Cheektowaga, N.Y. 

A man died March 22 after jumping from a window of East Meadow, N.Y.-based Nassau University Medical Center, according to the Nassau Daily Voice. 

Wisconsin's $15 million COVID-19 overflow hospital in West Allis has closed after serving about 200 patients, according to a March 19 news release from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. 

Upper Allegheny Health System, a two-hospital system based in Olean, N.Y., plans to reduce acute care and surgical service offerings at Bradford (Pa.) Regional Medical Center, according to an open letter to the community.

Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health closed its COVID-19 hospital March 5 and transitioned care to four other hospitals. 

A man fatally shot himself after shooting his wife March 1 inside a medical office in Houston, according to the Houston Police Department. 

Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health is closing its COVID-19 hospital on March 5 and transitioning care to four other hospital campuses. 

Outpatient care visits per week in the U.S. remained relatively stable over the last three months of 2020 and unchanged from the week of March 1, despite a COVID-19 surge over November and December, according to new research released Feb. 22 by Harvard University, healthcare technology company Phreesia and healthcare policy research firm the Commonwealth Fund. 

Mercy Hospital Cassville (Mo.) has temporarily closed after its roof caught fire Feb. 22, prompting the evacuation of all patients, according to local news station KTTS.

Power outages and water issues continue in Texas amid the aftermath of winter storms that hit the Southern U.S. last week. 

Power outages and water problems continue in Mississippi amid the aftermath of winter storms that hit the South U.S. this week.