Warren, Ohio-based Insight Hospital and Medical Center Trumbull has paused both inpatient and outpatient services, and has made the decision to furlough an unspecified number of employees amid ongoing financial disruptors from the hospital’s former owner Dallas-based Steward Health Care.
Insight Hospital, which stopped admitting nonemergent patients in early March, and Warren-based Hillside Rehabilitation Hospital were taken over from Steward by Flint, Mich.-based Insight Health System in early November.
Steward sought Chapter 11 protection May 6, 2024, and received March 11, 2025, bankruptcy court approval to sell certain management assets and functions to Brentwood, Tenn.-based Quorum Health affiliate Golden Sun TSA Services. The sale affected 25 of Steward’s former hospitals, including Insight Hospital.
“Due to abrupt developments in Steward Health Care’s bankruptcy proceedings, Steward has ceased funding for healthcare services that were already delivered at Trumbull and Hillside hospitals in recent months,” a spokesperson for Insight said in a March 24 statement shared with Becker’s. “Despite our ongoing efforts, Insight has been unable to secure the release of these funds from Steward, even as government authorities have requested guaranteed weekly payments to ensure continuity of care.”
Insight Hospital and Medical Center Trumbull’s emergency department with lab and radiology services will remain available. However, inpatient and outpatient services, including those at Hillside Rehabilitation Hospital and the Austintown and Elm Road outpatient centers, have been paused.
Insight expects the furloughs to be temporary, with plans to reinstate employees within a six-month period, the statement said.
Jawad Shah, MD, founder and CEO of Insight, will serve as president of both Insight Hospital and Hillside Rehabilitation amid these transitions.
“Under [Dr. Shah’s] leadership, Insight is committed to rebuilding both hospitals as nonprofit, physician-led, and patient-centered institutions,” the statement said. “In the months ahead, we will redesign operations to be fully independent of Steward’s management, cost structures and legacy software systems.”
Becker’s has reached out to Insight regarding the number of employees affected by the furloughs and to Steward for comment, and will update this story should more information become available.
