Six healthcare organizations recently shuttered medical units or terminated services in the last two months to shore up finances, focus on more in-demand services or improve patient care:
1. Ohio hospital closes behavioral health unit
Bellaire, Ohio-based Belmont Community Hospital shuttered its behavioral health unit.
2. Michigan hospital's birth center closes
Sturgis (Mich.) Hospital's birth center closed Jan. 2 amid job and services cuts.
3. New York hospital requests closure of inpatient behavioral health unit
Geneva, N.Y.-based Finger Lakes Health is requesting permission from the New York State Department of Health and the Office of Mental Health to close the inpatient behavioral health unit at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hospital.
4. DC's Providence Hospital will keep ER open, close other acute services
In September 2018, Providence Health System in Washington, D.C., owned by St. Louis-based Ascension, announced it would close its emergency room Dec. 5 and all acute care services by Dec. 14, but part of that closure has been pushed back.
5. HCA closes Sister Emmanuel Hospital in Miami
Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare closed Sister Emmanuel Hospital, a Miami-based long-term care hospital, Dec. 1.
6. Cape Valley system closes North Carolina urgent care center
Fayetteville, N.C.-based Cape Fear Valley Health closed the ExpressCare urgent care center at the Cape Fear Valley Medical Center campus, hospital officials announced.
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