Two employees have been killed in a shooting inside a Dallas hospital where the suspected gunman was shot and wounded by police.

The shooting occurred about 11am (7pm UK) inside Methodist Health System, according to hospital spokesperson Ryan Owens.

“A Methodist Health System Police Officer arrived on the scene, confronted the suspect, and fired his weapon at the suspect, injuring him,” Mr Owens said in a statement.

Neither the names of the victims nor their positions at the hospital were immediately released.

The hospital system said in a statement that it was mourning the deaths.

“The Methodist Health System Family is heartbroken at the loss of two of our beloved team members,” according to the statement attributed to the system’s leadership.

“Our entire organisation is grieving this unimaginable tragedy.”

The suspect, whose name was also not immediately released, was taken to another hospital in undisclosed condition and under police custody, Mr Owens said.

Dallas police referred questions to hospital police, who did not return phone calls for comment.

The shooting follows hospital shootings in September in Little Rock, Arkansas, that killed a visitor and in June in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that left four dead.