Becker’s has reported on 10 hospital and emergency department closures in 2025:
Editor’s note: This article will be updated continuously.
1. East Ohio Regional Hospital, a 140-bed healthcare facility in Martins Ferry closed on March 20.
2. St. Louis-based Homer G. Phillips Memorial Hospital’s board of directors voluntarily surrendered its hospital license March 17 to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services and closed.
3. Brewer, Maine-based Northern Light Health has shared plans to shutter Northern Light Inland Hospital in Waterville and its associated services and clinics in May due to “immense pressure of higher operational costs, unsustainably low reimbursement rates and a tight labor market,” the health system said in a news release shared with Becker’s.
4. Ascension St. Elizabeth in Chicago closed in mid-February prior to Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare’s acquisition of it and eight other St. Louis-based Ascension hospitals in Illinois.
5. New York City-based Mount Sinai’s Beth Israel has a planned closure of March 26 following months of legal battles after New York Supreme Court Judge Jeffrey Pearlman dismissed a lawsuit against the system that prevented its closure. However, a New York appellate court judge issued a new temporary stay in late February in an effort to halt the closure.
6. Irving, Texas-based Christus Health will shutter its Christus Santa Rosa Hospital-Medical Center in San Antonio, effective April 25, and consolidate care to nearby system hospitals.
7. Washington, D.C.-based United Medical Center will close April 15 and lay off 485 employees. The closure will be timed with the opening of Washington, D.C.-based Cedar Hill Regional Medical Center, which will start seeing patients April 15.
8. Orlando (Fla.) Health will shutter Rockledge Hospital and four hospital-based outpatient departments on April 22.
9. Moulton, Ala.-based Lawrence Medical Center will end inpatient and emergency services by mid-2025. The hospital entered a financial partnership with Huntsville (Ala.) Hospital Health System that will see the hospital shift to an outpatient-only model.
10. Pauls Valley, Okla.-based Valley Community Hospital closed Jan. 8. The 43-bed facility had reopened in 2021 after shuttering for three years. It was also forced to end online rumors of closure in January 2024 after multiple complaints led to the closure of its laboratory and relocation of laboratory services to Norman (Okla.) Regional Hospital.