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The parent company of Springfield's Baystate Medical Center is laying off of 24 employees, decreasing hours for 17, and leaving 45 positions unfilled to help close a $22 million budget shortfall. Baystate officials say the shortfall is the result of the government not paying enough to cover health care costs of the poor. Baystate Medical provided more than $112 million in unreimbursed care in 2014. (6/5)

On Friday May 22, just past 6 p.m., Yadkin Valley Community Hospital was shut down by HMC/CAH Consolidated Inc., the Missouri-based company licensed to operate it under a lease agreement with Yadkin County that runs through July 31. Yadkin County Attorney Edward Powell said around lunchtime that Friday, county officials received a call from Drexdal Pratt, director of the state Division of Health Service Regulation. According to Powell, Pratt said DHSR employees who were at the hospital conducting a regulatory survey had learned that hospital administrators planned to cease operations the following morning. That afternoon, the county filed a temporary restraining order in superior court in Raleigh to keep the hospital open. (Sisk, 6/5)

The Nationwide Foundation will give $10 million to Nationwide Children’s Hospital to advance research in the rapidly evolving field of genomics. The gift, which is to be formally announced today, will supplement the hospital’s Nationwide Pediatric Innovation Fund, which the foundation established a year ago with an initial donation of $10 million. (Allen, 6/5)

Nine protesters were arrested at the University of Chicago Wednesday, after they barricaded themselves inside an administration building vestibule and disabled the elevators, according to a university spokesman. The coalition, which is pushing the university to build a Level 1 trauma center, held a protest that lasted about two hours, until police and fire officials arrived to restore access to the building, officials said. (Esposito, 6/4)