A patient reportedly brought a suspicious package to the emergency room of Greenville, S.C.-based St. Francis Eastside Aug. 7, causing authorities to halt all traffic surrounding the hospital, according to the Greenville News.
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Hospitals in Charlottesville, Va., are taking precautions to ensure they can provide care to patients ahead of the one-year anniversary of the deadly Unite the Right white nationalist rally that left one dead and several others injured, ABC 8 News…
A power outage and two generator failures forced Plattsburg, N.Y.-based CVPH Medical Center, part of the UVM Health Network, to transfer one patient and cancel elective surgeries Aug. 6, according to My NBC 5.
After a series of overnight shootings that left two people dead and several others injured, Chicago-based John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital limited the number of trauma victims' families and friends entering the emergency room, NBC Chicago reports.
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An Aug. 1 water leak at Midwest City, Okla.-based AllianceHealth forced the 255-bed hospital to reschedule surgeries, KFOR reports.
Salisbury, N.C.-based Novant Health Rowan Medical Center has postponed elective surgeries after a storm left at least 4 inches of rain in the facility Aug. 1, according to a WBTV news report.
Rising healthcare bills, painkiller use and untreated mental illness are fueling violence in U.S. emergency departments, leaving physicians and nurses with troubling stories of patient aggression toward staff, Politico reports.
A Kaiser Permanente medical office building in Wildomar, Calif., was briefly evacuated for a couple of hours July 12 and six employees were taken from the scene by ambulance, according to The Press Enterprise.
Hackettstown (N.J.) Medical Center evacuated its emergency room around 12 p.m. July 10 after a construction worker struck an oxygen line, according to a Lehigh Valley Live news report.