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Texas health system closes hospital, lays off 972

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https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/texas-health-system-closes-hospital-lays-off-972.html

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Nix Medical Center, a 208-bed hospital in San Antonio has closed, and its medical equipment will be sold at auction.

Nix Medical Center is part of Nix Health, which is owned by Los Angeles-based Prospect Medical Holdings. In September, Prospect Medical Holdings said it planned to close the hospital because community demand for acute care at Nix Medical Center has declined over the past year.

Nix Medical Center closed this month, and its medical equipment will be sold at an online auction Dec. 11. Centurian Service Group will conduct the auction.

Nix Health also closed its home health division and other facilities, including its specialty health and behavioral center. The combined closures are expected to result in 972 layoffs, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notice filed Nov. 6, which states workers will be laid off Jan. 4.

Nix is part of the South Texas Crisis Collaborative, a group of facilities that offer mental health services. Other hospitals in the group are preparing to absorb an influx of patients due to the Nix closures, according to TV station KSAT.

 

Drexel to lay off 40% of medical staff due to hospital closure

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https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2019/07/18/drexel-university-eliminating-40-of-its-clinical-staff-due-to-hahnemann-university-hospitals-impending-closure/

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Philadelphia-based Drexel University is laying off 40 percent of its clinical staff due to the impending closure of Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia, according to CBS Philly.

Hahnemann, which is slated to shut down Sept. 6, is the teaching hospital of Drexel University College of Medicine. In an email to CBS Philly, Drexel said the hospital closure is forcing university leaders to make tough decisions.

“The abrupt closure of Hahnemann has brought the Drexel University Physicians (DUP) practice plan to a crisis point. We have been forced to make extremely difficult decisions, but please know that the long-term goal is to preserve as many clinical faculty and professional staff jobs as possible,” the university said, according to CBS Philly.

Drexel will offer employment to about 60 percent of the clinical faculty and staff within DUP. Those who are not offered positions will receive severance and outplacement counseling, according to the report.

Access the full CBS Philly report here.