At first, a doctor at St. Mark’s Hospital told Donnamay Brockbank’s family that her open-heart surgery had been completed without a hitch. The 62-year-old had arrived at the hospital in Millcreek, Utah, on July 11, 2018, to remove a metal heart device that was causing an allergic reaction.
The mother of a newborn and her boyfriend have been arrested after the disturbing murder of the baby soon after she gave birth at a California hospital. Andrea Torralba, 20, and David Villa, 21, both of Oxnard, California, about 60 miles northwest of Los Angeles, were taken into custody on Friday afternoon after police responded to St. John’s Medical Center.
Eleven rural hospitals in Wisconsin stopped routinely delivering babies in the past 10 years, a report shows. The closures were due to the challenge of a low number of both on-call providers and number of deliveries, the report by the Wisconsin Office of Rural Health said.
The announcement Thursday that Jewish Hospital would suspend its heart transplant program was a blow to an institution that once led the nation as an esteemed leader in heart care and innovative. The decision directly affects 32 people on the hospital's waiting list for new hearts. Once the program is halted next month, officials at Jewish Hospital are expected to help them transition to other transplant programs — and there's only one other program in the state at the University of Kentucky.
Three years ago Riley Hospital for Children opened a psychiatric unit amid much fanfare, saying it would provide much-needed care for children and adolescents with conditions ranging from anxiety to eating disorders to bipolar disorder. But this spring, the hospital quietly shuttered the 20-bed unit, which included safe rooms especially designed for patients who might harm themselves.
After some promising early indicators, preliminary federal data suggest the number of Americans who died from drug overdoses finally fell in 2018, after years of significant increases. Provisional data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics predicted that 68,500 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2018, compared to about 72,000 the year before.