There has been a rise in hospital closures, with Becker’s reporting on more than 10 in 2025 alone.
“America’s hospitals and health systems are grappling with significant challenges, including broken supply chains, workforce shortages, cyber threats and behavioral health issues,” Alicia Mitchell, senior vice president of communications for the American Hospital Association, said in a statement shared with Becker’s. “At the same time, chronic government underpayments and restrictive commercial insurer prior authorization policies further strain hospitals, as they strive to provide patient care.”
Here are five hospitals that closed in March:
1. On March 27, two hospitals in Warren, Ohio — Insight Hospital and Medical Center Trumbull — paused its inpatient, outpatient and emergency room services for the foreseeable future amid ongoing bankruptcy and financial disruptions from former owner Dallas-based Steward Health Care. Existing patients at both Insight hospitals are being transferred, with appointments being canceled to protect patient safety.
2. East Ohio Regional Hospital, a 140-bed healthcare facility in Martins Ferry, closed March 20. The closing is the latest chapter for the struggling hospital and comes as workers reported having not received their most recent paychecks.
3. St. Louis-based Homer G. Phillips Memorial Hospital’s board of directors voluntarily surrendered its hospital license March 17 to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services and closed.
4. Brewer, Maine-based Northern Light Health shared plans to shutter Northern Light Inland Hospital in Waterville and its associated services and clinics in May due to “immense pressure of higher operational costs, unsustainably low reimbursement rates and a tight labor market,” the health system said in a news release shared with Becker’s.
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