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Dallas-based Steward Health Care, a private, for-profit hospital operator, plans to reopen the former Florence (Ariz.) Hospital at Anthem, PinalCentral.com reported.

St. Joseph Hospital and Trumbull Memorial, both based in Warren, Ohio, are back to normal after both facilities received a bomb threat Dec. 3, according to WKBN 27.

An armed shooter pursued two individuals through Kansas City, Kan., and to the entrance of the Kansas City-based University of Kansas Medical Center on Dec. 3 before critically injuring one and fatally shooting himself, police said, according to The Kansas City Star.

In September, Providence Health System in Washington, D.C., owned by St. Louis-based Ascension, announced it would close its emergency room Dec. 5 and all acute care services by Dec. 14. Now, part of that closure has been pushed back, according to a WAMU news report.

Ambulance response times to cardiac arrest 911 calls are 10 percent longer in low-income areas, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Broward Sheriff's Office deputies shot and killed a patient at University Hospital in Tamarac, Fla., on Dec. 1.

Paradise, Calif.-based Adventist Health Feather River Hospital, a 101-bed facility that sustained significant damage during the deadly California Camp Fire in early November, plans to reopen "no matter what," according to the Chico Enterprise-Record.

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare closed Sister Emmanuel Hospital, a Miami-based long-term care hospital, Dec. 1.

Adventist Health Feather River Hospital in Paradise, Calif., shut down in early November after sustaining extensive damage from a wildfire, but the hospital is taking steps to reopen.

A natural gas leak forced Erie, Pa.-based UPMC Hamot to divert patients to other hospitals and move emergency room patients to other parts of the facility, according to a Go Erie news report.

Fayetteville, N.C.-based Cape Fear Valley Health is closing the ExpressCare urgent care center at the Cape Fear Valley Medical Center campus, hospital officials announced.

Many have likely heard about hospital deserts, those patches of mostly rural America where the last hospital has closed, forcing ambulances and patients to travel a hundred miles or more for emergency or routine care.

A gunman opened fire at the Mercy Hospital & Medical Center campus in Chicago the afternoon of Nov. 19, killing a Chicago police officer, a physician and a first-year pharmacy resident, according to CBS Chicago.

An ambulance en route to Exeter (N.H.) Hospital caught fire Nov. 18 with a patient onboard, according to a WMUR news report.

Three general acute care hospitals, several skilled nursing and intermediate care facilities, and more than 300 patients have been evacuated as massive wildfires continue to burn across California, Bloomberg reports.

Office visits to primary care physicians are declining among adults with employer-sponsored health insurance, according to a study from the Health Care Cost Institute, an independent, nonprofit partially funded by four health insurance companies.

Several healthcare organizations recently shuttered medical units or terminated services to shore up finances, focus on more in-demand services or improve patient care.

Cleveland Clinic-Medina (Ohio) Hospital went into lockdown Tuesday afternoon after reports of an active shooter in the hospital's medical office building, though the reports were later proven to be unsubstantiated, according to Cleveland.com.

A patient in Tampa, Fla., died after the ambulance that picked him up broke down, and it took almost an hour to get him to the hospital, according to ABC Action News.