According to a Palm Beach Post news report, JFK Medical Center in Atlantis, Fla., is shutting down its 23-year-old cardiac rehabilitation program due to its low enrollment and, consequently, financial woes. Hospital administrators have expressed patients who seek rehab after a heart attack or heart surgery can find similar services in the community, according to the news report.
Chesapeake (Va.) Regional Medical Center is set to close its geriatric psychiatry unit on July 15, according to a Virginian-Pilot news report. Since a 2008 adjustment to Medicare reimbursement, the hospital’s geriatric psychiatric unit lost $1.5 million.
Earl K. Long Medical Center in Baton Rouge, La., will be ending its inpatient labor and delivery services, effective July 1, according to a news report by The Republic. The closure includes the well newborn, intermediate care and neonatal intensive care nurseries. Labor and delivery services will be shifted to Woman’s Hospital, also in Baton Rouge. The news report did not disclose any reasons for why the hospital closed these services.
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