Quorum, a spinoff of Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems, announced plans in early January to shut down the facility due to financial troubles. The company said declining revenues, increasing provider compensation and a competitive market caused Affinity Medical Center to record financial losses for the last six years.
Affinity Medical Center’s nurses rallied outside the facility Jan. 9 to seek support for keeping the hospital open. They were joined by Mr. Kucinich, who told those at the rally the city of Massillon can seek a restraining order to prevent the hospital closure. He said the city should look into eminent domain proceedings as a way to take over the hospital, according to the Cleveland Patch.
An Ohio Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notice dated Jan. 5 indicated 692 of Affinity Medical Center’s employees would be laid off by March 7. The closure will also result in 116 workers at Massillon-based Doctor’s Hospital Physician Services, which provides services at Affinity Medical Center, losing their jobs, according to a separate WARN notice.
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