Sharon (Pa.) Regional Hospital, a former Dallas-based Steward Health Care facility that closed in early January, will reopen under Tenor Health Foundation and begin accepting patients March 18.
Tenor Health will operate the hospital under Steward's former license while it pursues a change in ownership to transfer licensing "at a later date," a spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Department of Health said in a March 17 statement shared with Becker's.
In September 2024, the state agreed to pay Steward, which sought Chapter 11 protection May 6, $4.5 million over three months to keep the hospital open. Pennsylvania then filed an emergency motion after Steward requested $3 million per month on Dec. 1 lest it begin the closure process.
Steward filed a Jan. 6 closure notice for the 163-bed hospital and received bankruptcy court approval after a proposed transaction from Meadville (Pa.) Medical Center was withdrawn. Tenor Health Foundation, a hospital turnaround company, received bankruptcy court approval Jan. 10 to purchase the hospital for $1.9 million and has since been working to reopen it.
"We recognize the difficult challenges and frustrations our community has faced without a local hospital," Radha Savitala, founder and CEO of Tenor Health Foundation, said in a March 14 news release shared with Becker's. "Our top priority is reopening Sharon Regional Medical Center as quickly and safely as possible, with an unwavering commitment to patient safety, high-quality care, and the restoration of essential services — including a fully operational emergency room, critical care, inpatient care, behavioral health, and other specialty services."
The hospital will comprise a full array of services, including medical-surgical admissions, on-call specialists, emergency care, laboratory, radiology, pharmaceuticals and anesthesiology. Tenor Health is working to restore resources for the hospital's hermitage diagnostic center, rehabilitation services, wound and sleep care, pain clinic and behavioral health programs.
Tenor Health has been working to retain and recruit employees for the hospital, which will be fully staffed prior to welcoming patients. It also plans to share a phased reopening plan for the hospital in the coming weeks, the release said.