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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.

Mesa View Regional Hospital, the only one in Mesquite, Nev., will stop providing labor and delivery services Oct. 1, according to the Desert Valley Times.

Traveling nurse Tonya Broughton jumped into action Sept. 4, after she found herself in the middle of a car chase in Nashville, Tenn., that ended in a fatal shooting and crash, according to WZTV Fox17. 

Active shooter training and simulations show promise in properly equipping emergency room nurses and other hospital staff members, survey results published in the Journal of Emergency Nursing revealed.

A nurse at Baltimore-based Sinai Hospital and her 5-year-old granddaughter were struck by a car and killed July 25, according to a WBAL TV news report.

Dallas-based Baylor University Medical Center set a birthing record June 19 when physicians and nurses delivered 42 babies in 48 hours, KXAS reports.