Becker’s has reported on 23 hospital and emergency department closures in 2025:
Editor’s note: This article will be updated continuously.
1. Jersey City, N.J.-based Hudson Regional Health closed its Heights University Hospital, also in Jersey City, in mid-November. However, the facility’s 24/7 emergency department remains open for now. The closure comes after Hudson Regional filed a certificate of need to close the hospital with the state department of health in mid-November after failing to secure critical funding from the state.
2. Wichita Falls, Texas-based Kell West Regional Hospital will close “in the coming weeks” 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.
3. Landmark Hospital of Cape Girardeau (Mo.), a long-term acute care facility, has shared plans to close “in the coming weeks” over “unsustainable healthcare market conditions.”
4. 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.
5. 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. Lauren Still, GMC hospital administrator, also confirmed with Becker’s that while GMC has a path forward to preserve its primary care and specialty clinics, the ED and hospital services will end.
6. Chicago-based Weiss Memorial Hospital closed the morning of Aug. 8 amid CMS’ plan to terminate its Medicare program participation on Aug. 9.
7. Rockford, Ill.-based Javon Bea Hospital-Rockton has closed after Rockford-based Mercyhealth filed a “temporary suspension of services” with the state.
8. 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.
9. 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 will shut down 30 days later.
10. Moulton, Ala.-based Lawrence Medical Center permanently shuttered its emergency department on May 23.
11. Upland, Pa.-based Crozer Health closed its Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland on May 2.
12. 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.
13. Mid Coast Medical Center Trinity (Texas) closed April 25, after attempting to secure facility long-term sustainability and financial stability for months.
14. Heritage Valley Kennedy Hospital in Kennedy Township, Pa., closed on June 30 due to reduced insurance reimbursements and declining patient volume.
15. 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 and is expected to reopen this fall.
16. 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.
17. Brewer, Maine-based Northern Light Health has shared closed Northern Light Inland Hospital in Waterville and its associated services and clinics on May 27.
18. 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.
19. New York City-based Mount Sinai’s Beth Israel closed April 9 after months of legal back and fourth with the Community Coalition to Save Beth Israel Hospital to keep the hospital open.
20. Irving, Texas-based Christus Health shuttered its Christus Santa Rosa Hospital-Medical Center in San Antonio on April 25, and consolidate care to nearby system hospitals.
21. Washington, D.C.-based United Medical Center closed April 15 and laid 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.
22. Orlando (Fla.) Health shuttered Rockledge Hospital and four hospital-based outpatient departments on April 22.
23. 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.
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