Here are the six hospitals and health systems Becker’s has reported on shuttering services since Aug. 11:
1. Aurora Medical Center-Sheboygan County in Wisconsin plans to stop offering inpatient psychiatric care and convert those beds to medical and surgical beds beginning Sept. 19. Aurora Health Care attributed the decision to an increase in demand for medical and surgical inpatient beds and a decline in psychiatric patient volume.
2. MetroHealth plans to close six outpatient offices in October to improve operational efficiency and stabilize its finances. The Cleveland-based system said services offered at the affected sites will be consolidated to larger locations and enable it to expand services and hours of operation.
3. Sacramento-based Sutter Health plans to close its Jackson, Calif.-based Sutter Amador Surgery Center on Oct. 3. Non-emergency, elective procedures currently performed at the surgery center will be transitioned to Sutter Amador Hospital.
4. Providence Seaside (Ore.) Hospital plans to close its inpatient obstetric and newborn care services, effective Oct. 4. The services affected include labor and delivery, well-newborn inpatient care and outpatient prenatal/surgical gynecological care with an OB-GYN physician.
5. Jackson South Medical Center, part of Jackson Health System, both in Miami, has moved up the closure of its maternity unit to Aug. 15. The hospital originally shared plans to close the unit this fall, but the closure was accelerated due to ongoing staffing issues, including nurses transferring to other positions and frequent callouts.
6. Memorial Hospital Biloxi (Miss.) will end its obstetrics services and transfer them to Memorial Hospital Gulfport (Miss.) on Sept. 1. The hospitals are part of Memorial Hospital System in Gulfport. Obstetrics services being consolidated include labor and delivery, nursery and mother and baby.
