Three more hospitals closed in May, bringing the 2025 total to 16 closures as financial pressures — especially in rural areas — continue to mount. With potential cuts to Medicaid and little relief in sight, closures unfortunately show no sign of slowing.
Here are three hospitals that closed in May:
1. Waterville, Maine-based Northern Light Inland Hospital closed on May 27, marking the end of operations for the facility that has been gradually winding down since the closure was announced earlier this year. Northern Light Health’s decision to close the hospital was made due to “immense pressure of higher operational costs, unsustainably low reimbursement rates and a tight labor market,” the health system said in a news release shared with Becker’s.
2. Moulton, Ala.-based Lawrence Medical Center, an affiliate of Huntsville Hospital Health System, permanently closed its emergency department at 7 p.m. on May 23. The 98-bed hospital stopped providing inpatient services earlier this year and had been operating as a freestanding emergency department. The closure is part of a strategic shift to convert the hospital into an outpatient-only facility. The move comes ahead of a 40-year lease agreement that will give Huntsville Hospital Health full operational and financial control of Lawrence Medical Center. The longtime affiliates have operated financially independently until now.
3. Crozer Health shuttered Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland, Pa., on May 2, one week after it closed Taylor Hospital in Ridley Park, Pa. The closures came after a monthslong battle to save the health system failed. More than 2,600 employees were laid off as the health system — previously operated by Los Angeles-based Prospect Medical Holdings — ceased operations.
