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The Togus VA Medical Center in Augusta, Maine, is temporarily closing its dialysis center to outpatients due to a nursing shortage, CBS-affiliate TV station WGME reports.

NorthShore University Evanston (Ill.) Hospital created a pilot program to help mental health patients access care sooner after an emergency department visit, reports the Chicago Tribune.

Harrington Hospital in Southbridge, Mass., is closing its 11-bed inpatient pediatric unit, according to a Worcester Business Journal report.  

Thirty-one members of the medical team at St. Cloud (Minn.) Hospital gave birth to 32 babies in 2018, according to Fox 9.

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center-Brenham (Texas) has suspended labor and delivery services until Dec. 21, according to The Banner-Press.

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Ventura (Calif.) County Medical Center will reopen its pediatric intensive care unit Oct. 29, nearly four years after county hospital officials closed the unit due to staffing and patient transfer concerns, according to the VC Star.

Some hospitals in Charleston, S.C., recorded as many as 30 more births in October after a rare snowstorm closed businesses in January, according to The Post and Courier.

Iowa Falls, Iowa-based Hansen Family Hospital will end its labor and delivery services on Nov. 23, after its primary physician leaves the hospital, according to The Courier.

Twin sisters Jalynne Crawford and Janelle Leopoldo gave birth to boys on the same day in June at the same Arizona hospital. The sisters underwent caesarian sections performed by the same physician two hours apart, according to ABC News.