Becker's Healthcare February 5, 2024
Hospitals are continuing to close due to mounting financial pressures and operational challenges.
Here’s why four hospitals are closing and how it could affect ASCs:
1. Port Arthur-based Medical Center of Southeast Texas, an affiliate of Dallas-based Steward Health Care, closed its campus in Beaumont Feb. 2. The closure includes its emergency department and all hospital-related services, which are being relocated to the center’s Port Arthur campus.
“We found that the Beaumont campus was severely underutilized given the needs in the region,” a Steward spokesperson said in a statement shared with Becker’s Jan. 25.
2. Green Bay, Wis.-based Prevea Health plans to close 19 health facilities and two hospitals in Western Wisconsin on or before April 21. Prevea Surgery Center...
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