Numerous healthcare organizations recently shuttered medical units or terminated services to shore up finances, focus on more in-demand services or improve patient care lapses.
Here are 11 hospitals and health systems that have announced closures, completed closures or ceased medical services temporarily or permanently in the past month, as reported by Becker's Hospital Review, beginning with the most recent.
1. MedStar hospital to shutter pediatric inpatient, ER units; 20 jobs affected
Baltimore-based MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center is closing its pediatric inpatient and emergency room units.
2. UW Medicine considers closing part or all of psychiatric unit at flagship hospital
The inpatient psychiatric unit at University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle could undergo significant changes due to the cost of meeting new federal requirements. One of the considerations is closing its psychiatric unit.
3. Ascension to halt surgical, inpatient medical care at Milwaukee hospital in low-income neighborhood
Milwaukee-based Wheaton Franciscan-St. Joseph Hospital, part of Ascension Wisconsin, will stop providing surgical and inpatient medical care as part of a long-term plan to shore up finances and transform the hospital's role in the primarily low-income neighborhood.
4. Michigan health clinic to end dialysis services
Aspirus Crystal Falls (Mich.) Clinic stopped providing dialysis treatment March 30.
5. UPMC outpatient clinic to transition out services, may close
Pittsburgh-based UPMC Mercy South Side Outpatient Center will begin moving its services to other facilities in the Pittsburgh-based UPMC network in July — leaving the facility with an uncertain future.
6. U of Illinois Hospital to close physical rehabilitation unit
Chicago-based University of Illinois Hospital submitted plans in March to the state board to shutter its physical rehabilitation unit and convert the space into more private medical-surgical beds.
7. CovenantCare to close at home care facility, lay off 67 workers
Westminster, Colo.-based CovenantCare at Home will close May 17, which will result in 67 employees losing their jobs.
8. Good Samaritan's maternity ward will be the first major unit to shutter: 4 things to know
Maternity care will be the first major service line to transition out of Dayton, Ohio-based Good Samaritan Hospital as the hospital prepares to close by the end of the year.
9. Children's Institute of Pittsburgh to close rehab hospital, resulting in 15% workforce reduction
The Children's Institute of Pittsburgh will close its 62-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital in April, which will affect 15 percent of its workforce.
10. Shriners Hospitals for Children proposes burn care consolidation plan
Citing a decline in the number of acute burn injuries in children, Tampa, Fla.-based Shriners Hospitals for Children proposed a plan to consolidate burn care across its 22-hospital network.
11. Indiana hospital to shutter short-term rehabilitation unit
Warsaw, Ind.-based Miller's Health System shuttered the 21-bed short-term rehabilitation unit it operates at Logansport (Ind.) Memorial Hospital April 1.