Becker's Healthcare December 31, 2025
A number of healthcare organizations have recently closed medical departments or ended services at facilities to shore up finances, focus on more in-demand services or address staffing shortages.
Here are 41 department closures or services that are ending or have been announced, advanced or finalized that Becker’s reported since July 1:
1. Santa Rosa (Calif.) Memorial Hospital, part of Renton, Wash.-based Providence, set a March 27, 2026, deadline for shuttering its inpatient children’s unit. The hospital said in October it would close the eight-bed unit and repurpose it for adult inpatient care, citing low patient volumes and financial challenges. Providence also said the unit averages fewer than two admitted patients per day, most of whom stay less than 48...







