In a year that has already been plagued by hospital closures, several major health systems have decided to discontinue service lines in an effort to save money.
Here are 17 health systems that have discontinued, or plan to discontinue, service lines in 2025:
- Opp, Ala.-based Mizell Memorial Hospital will shutter its orthopedic surgery department June 20. The move is part of a cost-reduction plan from the hospital’s board of directors to decrease expenses by $2.4 million annually. Orthopedic services have lost the system approximately $250,000 in the past year.
- Burlington, Kan.-based Coffey County Hospital has shared plans to end its obstetrics services, effective June 30.
- Houlton (Maine) Regional Hospital has shared plans to end its inpatient labor and delivery unit, effective May 2, due to a decline in volume.
- Corydon, Ind.-based Harrison County Hospital ended its obstetric services March 31 after evaluating national physician recruitment challenges.
- East Ohio Regional Hospital, a 140-bed facility in Martins Ferry, will shutter its long-term care and skilled nursing facility. The hospital attributed the decision to efforts to “prioritize patient care” and “refocus resources and energy on the care and delivery of acute medicine.”
- San Antonio-based Brooke Army Medical Center closed three pharmacies in March “due to several changes within the military healthcare system.”
- Thousand Oaks, Calif.-based Los Robles Regional Medical Center will close its 12-bed pediatric unit July 1 due to low patient volumes. The hospital is part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare’s Los Robles Health System.
- Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health closed its Bloomin’ Babies Birth Center in Grand Junction, Colo., effective March 28. The closure comes amid a declining birth rate and an unsustainable decrease in new patients at the freestanding birth center.
- Inpatient and emergency services at Lawrence Medical in Moulton, Ala., are expected to end by mid-2025 as the hospital shifts to an outpatient-only model.
- UPMC Cole Hospital, a 25-bed facility in Coudersport, Pa., shuttered its three-bed obstetrics unit, effective April 7.
- La Junta, Colo.-based Arkansas Valley Regional Medical Center’s leadership and board of directors decided to close the hospital’s obstetrics services, effective April 30. The closure comes amid financial losses, low monthly birth rates and underfunding by the Colorado Medicaid program for obstetric services.
- Evanston, Ill.-based Endeavor Health eliminated inpatient psychiatric services at one of its hospitals on April 11, a move affecting about 100 behavioral health employees.
- Brewer, Maine-based Northern Light Health ended birthing services at Northern Light Inland Hospital and Northern Light Women’s Health, both in Waterville, Maine, effective March 1. The decision was the result of ongoing recruitment challenges for labor and delivery providers.
- The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has shared plans to close the Pappas Rehabilitation Hospital for Children in Canton, Mass. The move comes after a state study found that the Canton facility was “unable to accommodate the kind of technology and high-acuity care that many children with significant disabilities need.”
- UnityPoint Health Finley Hospital in Dubuque, Iowa, is ending inpatient care for pediatric patients.
- MercyOne Siouxland Medical Center in Sioux City, Iowa, has indefinitely paused its open-heart surgery program, attributing the decision to changing demographics, difficulty recruiting physicians to the region and financial pressures.
- Westfield (N.Y.) Memorial Hospital plans to end inpatient care and focus on providing outpatient and emergency care if CMS and the New York State Department of Health approve its application to transition to a rural emergency hospital.
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