Becker’s has reported on 16 hospital and emergency department closures in 2025:
Editor’s note: This article will be updated continuously.
1. Moulton, Ala.-based Lawrence Medical Center permanently shuttered its emergency department on May 23.
2. Upland, Pa.-based Crozer Health closed its Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland on May 2.
3. 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.
4. Mid Coast Medical Center Trinity (Texas) closed April 25, after attempting to secure facility long-term sustainability and financial stability for months.
5. Heritage Valley Kennedy Hospital in Kennedy Township, Pa., will shutter on June 30 due to reduced insurance reimbursements and declining patient volume.
6. Insight Hospital and Medical Center Trumbull in Warren, Ohio, paused its inpatient, outpatient and emergency room services March 27 for the foreseeable future amid ongoing bankruptcy and financial disruptions from former owner Dallas-based Steward Health Care.
7. East Ohio Regional Hospital, a 140-bed healthcare facility in Martins Ferry, closed March 20.
8. 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.
9. Brewer, Maine-based Northern Light Health has shared plans to close Northern Light Inland Hospital in Waterville and its associated services and clinics on May 27.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. Orlando (Fla.) Health shuttered Rockledge Hospital and four hospital-based outpatient departments on April 22.
15. Moulton, Ala.-based Lawrence Medical Center will end inpatient and emergency services by mid-2025. The hospital entered a financial partnership with Huntsville (Ala.) Hospital Health System that will see the hospital shift to an outpatient-only model.
16. 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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