More than 50 U.S. hospitals have closed, converted or ended services since the beginning of 2024 amid financial pressures, policy changes like the passage of HR 1, declining patient volumes and other challenges that continue to squeeze hospitals and health systems.
So far, 2026 has seen six hospital closures, trailing behind 22 hospital closures in 2025 and 23 hospital closures in 2024.
Becker’s has reported on 51 hospital and emergency department closures from 2024-2026:
1. East China, Mich.-based Henry Ford River District Hospital will end inpatient care, emergency department services and other hospital-based operations. The services will be consolidated to nearby Detroit-based Henry Ford Health facilities due to the hospital’s need for substantial infrastructure repairs and modernization. Consolidation at the hospital will take effect Sept. 1, with the ED remaining open and fully staffed through Aug. 31.
2. Columbus, Ohio-based Mount Carmel Health System will close its freestanding Mount Carmel Franklin Emergency Department, also in Columbus, Aug. 22. Following the closure, the system will open a community-centered primary and prevention care hub, Mount Carmel Franklinton Care Center, Aug. 24 in Columbus.
3. Sturgis (Mich.) Hospital closed June 19 after 101 years of operation due to financial challenges and unsuccessful attempts to ensure a long-term path forward. The facility pointed to declining reimbursement rates, rising operating costs and a decrease in patient utilization.
4. Searcy, Ark.-based Unity Health permanently closed the emergency department and medical unit on April 15 at its Jacksonville, Ark.-based acute care hospital. The closure comes three years after the hospital opened in March 2023. Unity Health plans to convert it into a freestanding psychiatric hospital.
5. Bradford (Pa.) Regional Medical Center, part of Buffalo, N.Y.-based Kaleida Health, submitted a closure notice to discontinue its inpatient and emergency services by May 17 amid ongoing financial challenges.
6. Gaithersburg, Md.-based Adventist HealthCare plans to close its Germantown (Md.) Emergency Center on July 1, pending state approvals. The decision is based on declining volume at the facility, which opened in 2006 and is one of Maryland’s seven freestanding emergency rooms.
7. Jersey City, N.J.-based Hudson Regional Health closed its Heights University Hospital, also in Jersey City, in mid-November. The system then closed the emergency department at the shuttered hospital in March 2026.
8. Wichita Falls, Texas-based Kell West Regional Hospital closed after more than 25 years of service. The hospital pointed to the evolving healthcare landscape, including cost of infrastructure needs and care, patient volumes and reimbursement rates for its decision to close.
9. Landmark Hospital of Cape Girardeau (Mo.), a long-term acute care facility, closed in fall 2025 over “unsustainable healthcare market conditions.”
10. Phoenix-based Banner Health ended emergency services at its Loveland, Colo.-based Banner McKee Medical Center on Nov. 5 as the facility is converted to a specialty hospital.
11. Willows, Calif.-based Glenn Medical Center closed its emergency department and hospital following CMS’ plan to revoke its critical access hospital designation on Oct. 21.
12. Chicago-based Weiss Memorial Hospital closed the morning of Aug. 8 amid CMS’ plan to terminate its Medicare program participation on Aug. 9.
13. Rockford, Ill.-based Javon Bea Hospital-Rockton closed after Rockford-based Mercyhealth filed a “temporary suspension of services” with the state.
14. St. Louis-based St. Luke’s Des Peres Hospital, a 143-bed acute care facility, closed on Aug. 1 due to low utilization and increased financial pressures.
15. Stilwell (Okla.) Memorial Hospital and its clinic shuttered, ABC affiliate KTUL reported June 21. An employee told the news outlet the hospital closed June 27 and the clinic shut down 30 days later.
16. Moulton, Ala.-based Lawrence Medical Center permanently shuttered its emergency department on May 23.
17. Upland, Pa.-based Crozer Health closed its Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland on May 2.
18. Crozer Health closed its Ridley Park, Pa.-based Taylor Hospital on April 26. Around 2,651 employees across two Crozer hospitals and its other facilities were laid off from April 25 to May 2.
19. Mid Coast Medical Center Trinity (Texas) closed April 25, after attempting to secure facility long-term sustainability and financial stability for months.
20. Heritage Valley Kennedy Hospital in Kennedy Township, Pa., closed on June 30 due to reduced insurance reimbursements and declining patient volume.
21. East Ohio Regional Hospital, a 140-bed healthcare facility in Martins Ferry, closed March 20. In late June, the hospital was acquired by 360 Healthcare.
22. Brewer, Maine-based Northern Light Health closed Northern Light Inland Hospital in Waterville and its associated services and clinics on May 27.
23. Ascension St. Elizabeth in Chicago closed in mid-February prior to Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare’s acquisition of it and eight other Illinois hospitals owned by St. Louis-based Ascension.
24. New York City-based Mount Sinai’s Beth Israel closed April 9 after months of legal back and forth with the Community Coalition to Save Beth Israel Hospital to keep the hospital open.
25. Irving, Texas-based Christus Health shuttered its Christus Santa Rosa Hospital-Medical Center in San Antonio on April 25, and consolidated care to nearby system hospitals.
26. Washington, D.C.-based United Medical Center closed April 15 and laid off 485 employees. The closure was timed with the opening of Washington, D.C.-based Cedar Hill Regional Medical Center, which started seeing patients April 15.
27. Orlando (Fla.) Health shuttered Rockledge Hospital and four hospital-based outpatient departments on April 22.
28. 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 address 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.
29. ShorePoint Health Punta Gorda (Fla.) hospital closed after it sustained significant damage and suspended operations during Hurricanes Helene and Milton in September. Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth signed a definitive agreement to acquire ShorePoint Health Port Charlotte and “certain assets” of Punta Gorda in November.
30. Bryan, Texas-based CapRock Health System closed its Bryan-based CapRock Hospital and freestanding CapRock 24-Hour Emergency Care center in College Station, Texas, on Dec. 13.
31. St. Louis-based Ascension and its joint venture partner, Emerus Holdings, closed a micro-hospital in Waukesha, Wis., on Jan. 13 and consolidated higher acuity-care services to fewer hospitals in southeast Wisconsin.
32. Steward Health Care filed an Oct. 7 notice of closure for its already nonoperational Norwood (Mass.) Hospital and four satellite facilities.
33. Thomasville (Ala.) Regional Medical Center halted operations indefinitely amid staffing shortages.
34. Modesto, Calif.-based Stanislaus Surgical Hospital ended operations indefinitely Sept. 14 and laid off 160 employees.
35. Hicksville, Ohio-based Community Memorial Hospital closed on Aug. 31 after temporarily shutting down in May due to financial challenges.
36. Des Moines, Iowa-based MercyOne closed its MercyOne Primghar (Iowa) Medical Center on Sept. 27.
37. Steward closed Boston-based Carney Hospital on Aug. 31.
38. Steward also shuttered its Ayer, Mass.-based Nashoba Valley Medical Center on Aug. 31.
39. Norman (Okla.) Regional Health System closed its flagship Norman Regional Hospital and emergency department July 28 and relocated services to another location.
40. Columbia-based University of Missouri Health Care Women’s Hospital closed following its transitioning of all services to the new MU Health Care Children’s Hospital and Birthing Center.
41. Longview, Texas-based Select Specialty Hospital shuttered in late June. The closure will result in the termination of 94 employees, Becker’s has confirmed.
42. Prairieville (La.) Family Hospital closed April 29 after the Louisiana Department of Health determined that the hospital violated state hospital laws and regulations and revoked its license.
43. Family Hospital at Papillion (Neb.), part of Cedar Park, Texas-based Family Hospital Systems, abruptly shut down in late March.
44. Stoughton, Mass.-based New England Sinai Hospital, a 182-bed rehabilitation hospital owned by Dallas-based Steward Health Care, closed at the end of March. Steward shared plans to close the hospital in early December and cited “chronic low reimbursement rates” for Medicare and Medicaid services.
45. Regional Medical Center Health System ended inpatient services at Anniston, Ala.-based Stringfellow Memorial Hospital. The hospital’s emergency department will transition to its main hospital campus about 1 mile away.
46. Springfield, Ill.-based Hospital Sisters Health System closed Chippewa Falls, Wis.-based St. Joseph’s Hospital on March 22.
47. HSHS also closed its Eau Claire, Wis.-based Sacred Heart Hospital on March 22. Multiple regional health centers the health system operates in conjunction with Green Bay, Wis.-based Prevea Health also closed by April 21.
48. Wausau, Wis.-based Aspirus Health shut down its Aspirus Ontonagon (Mich.) Hospital and turned it into a rural health clinic, effective April 20.
49. Port Arthur-based the Medical Center of Southeast Texas, part of Steward Health Care, shuttered its Beaumont campus, including its emergency department and all hospital-related services, on Feb. 2.
50. Kettering (Ohio) Health closed its emergency department at Kettering Health Piqua (Ohio) on Feb. 1 due to a shift in care needs that led to fewer “true emergency cases.”
51. Family Hospital at Millard in Omaha, Neb., part of Cedar Park, Texas-based Family Hospital Systems, shut its doors in January.
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