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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Richmond, Va.-based Chippenham Hospital, a part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, relocated 11 of its most critical patients to nearby HCA hospitals after suffering a power outage July 10, WRIC reports.
Medicare patients who died in 2015 were more likely to die in their home and less likely to die in a hospital than those who died in 2000, a study published in JAMA found.
An ambulance rollover in Whately, Mass., sent five passengers to the hospital with serious injuries June 27, reports the Greenfield Recorder.