Financial hardships shutter East Texas hospital 14 months after reopening

[Zincwarrior]

Rural hospitals are becoming increasingly rare in Texas, and nationwide. This county is located between Houston and Lufkin, and man there is nothing there.

Financial hardships shutter East Texas hospital 14 months after reopening

Residents in Trinity County will now have to travel 30 miles to access the closest hospital.

www.texastribune.org

Trinity County’s only hospital, which opened just 14 months ago, will close this week as Texas continues to struggle to keep their rural hospitals afloat.

On April 18, the Mid Coast Medical Center announced it would be closing down its operations in Trinity on Friday, citing financial concerns. They gave just a week’s notice to the local hospital board, which fought to keep the hospital operating since doors opened in February 2024.

The closest hospitals to Trinity are about 30 miles away. One is the Mid Coast Medical Center - Crockett, in neighboring Houston County. The other is the Huntsville Memorial Hospital.

Trinity is the latest addition to the growing nationwide problem with rural hospital closures. Since 2005, 109 rural hospitals have completely closed, according to the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. Texas led the nation in rural hospital closures between 2010 and 2020, with one of them being Mid Coast’s predecessor in Trinity County, the East Texas Medical Center, which closed in 2017.


“A rural hospital is a really, really hard thing to do,” said John Henderson, CEO of the Texas Organization of Rural & Community Hospitals. “I give them credit for trying, but the reasons that the original hospital closed the first time still existed when they tried again.”

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Trinity County has been an awful business country for a hundred years.

A lumber company employing hundreds in Groveton in the midst of the Great Depression closed on a Monday morning without morning. The doors were locked and the workers told they had to be out of by company housing by Wednesday.

 

[Doc7505]

Rural hospitals are becoming increasingly rare in Texas, and nationwide. This county is located between Houston and Lufkin, and man there is nothing there.

Financial hardships shutter East Texas hospital 14 months after reopening

Residents in Trinity County will now have to travel 30 miles to access the closest hospital.

www.texastribune.org

Trinity County’s only hospital, which opened just 14 months ago, will close this week as Texas continues to struggle to keep their rural hospitals afloat.

On April 18, the Mid Coast Medical Center announced it would be closing down its operations in Trinity on Friday, citing financial concerns. They gave just a week’s notice to the local hospital board, which fought to keep the hospital operating since doors opened in February 2024.

The closest hospitals to Trinity are about 30 miles away. One is the Mid Coast Medical Center - Crockett, in neighboring Houston County. The other is the Huntsville Memorial Hospital.

Trinity is the latest addition to the growing nationwide problem with rural hospital closures. Since 2005, 109 rural hospitals have completely closed, according to the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. Texas led the nation in rural hospital closures between 2010 and 2020, with one of them being Mid Coast’s predecessor in Trinity County, the East Texas Medical Center, which closed in 2017.


“A rural hospital is a really, really hard thing to do,” said John Henderson, CEO of the Texas Organization of Rural & Community Hospitals. “I give them credit for trying, but the reasons that the original hospital closed the first time still existed when they tried again.”

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More likely too many illegal aliens using the hospital.

 

[debbiedowner]

Two hospitals to close after Pa. officials provided $40 million to help company find a buyer • Pennsylvania Capital-Star

The closures will affect Crozer Chester Medical Center and Taylor Hospital, leaving Delaware County with only two hospitals.

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5 hospital closures in a week - Becker's Hospital Review | Healthcare News & Analysis

Discover the latest hospital closures in 2025, including the reasons behind them and the impact on employees and patients.

www.beckershospitalreview.com

Yep, doc must be all the illegals.

 

[elektra]

Good, I am happy this hospital closed. There is no reason for this hospital to exust. Period.

Hell, it aint even a hospital, it us smaller than a doctors office

More wasteful government spending has ended

 

[Zincwarrior]

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More likely too many illegal aliens using the hospital.

Please cite support for your statement. If there are no jobs there, there are no immigrants there. They would be in the much more prosperous Houston just south.

 

[Lesh]

Good, I am happy this hospital closed. There is no reason for this hospital to exust. Period.

Hell, it aint even a hospital, it us smaller than a doctors office

More wasteful government spending has ended

WTF?

 

[luiza]

WTF?

See you are catching on to the reaction that your posts invariably produce .

 

[Doc7505]

Two hospitals to close after Pa. officials provided $40 million to help company find a buyer • Pennsylvania Capital-Star

The closures will affect Crozer Chester Medical Center and Taylor Hospital, leaving Delaware County with only two hospitals.

penncapital-star.com

5 hospital closures in a week - Becker's Hospital Review | Healthcare News & Analysis

Discover the latest hospital closures in 2025, including the reasons behind them and the impact on employees and patients.

www.beckershospitalreview.com

Yep, doc must be all the illegals.

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That's what happens to hospitals and schools when an estimated 20 million illegals are allowed to flood into the U.S.

Sources:

Illegal Immigrants Leave US Hospitals With Billions in Unpaid Bills | @AmacforAmerica

Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants are flooding U.S. hospitals for treatment and leaving billions in uncompensated health care costs

amac.us

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The Consequences of Unchecked Illegal Immigration on America’s Public Schools

The Issue Under President Joe Biden in fiscal year (FY) 2023, the United States had the highest number of illegal-alien encounters in its history, with more than 3 million individuals entering the country illegally. There are currently no reliable counts of total enrollment in public schools of...

www.heritage.org

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Denver hospitals want federal bailout as illegal immigrants flood system

A top doctor in Denver has told Fox News the illegal migrant crisis has pushed the state’s hospital system to its breaking point and is causing a humanitarian crisis.

www.foxnews.com

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https://homeland.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CHSPreliminaryReport.pdf

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

There may be 11 million illegals at the most.

Those citing 20mm are brain damaged at best or have syphilitic paresis at worse.

 

[struth]

Rural hospitals are becoming increasingly rare in Texas, and nationwide. This county is located between Houston and Lufkin, and man there is nothing there.

Financial hardships shutter East Texas hospital 14 months after reopening

Residents in Trinity County will now have to travel 30 miles to access the closest hospital.

www.texastribune.org

Trinity County’s only hospital, which opened just 14 months ago, will close this week as Texas continues to struggle to keep their rural hospitals afloat.

On April 18, the Mid Coast Medical Center announced it would be closing down its operations in Trinity on Friday, citing financial concerns. They gave just a week’s notice to the local hospital board, which fought to keep the hospital operating since doors opened in February 2024.

The closest hospitals to Trinity are about 30 miles away.
in neighboring Houston County. The other is the Huntsville Memorial Hospital.

Trinity is the latest addition to the growing nationwide problem with rural hospital closures. Since 2005, 109 rural hospitals have completely closed, according to the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. Texas led the nation in rural hospital closures between 2010 and 2020, with one of them being Mid Coast’s predecessor in Trinity County, the East Texas Medical Center, which closed in 2017.


“A rural hospital is a really, really hard thing to do,” said John Henderson, CEO of the Texas Organization of Rural & Community Hospitals. “I give them credit for trying, but the reasons that the original hospital closed the first time still existed when they tried again.”

Yep, hospitals are expensive to run, doctors, nurses, and staff aren't free....not to mention the equipment, as well as real estate.

When you don't have a big customer base, it's hard to maintain....and in the case you brought up, especially when you are 30 miles from Houston!

 

[Zincwarrior]

There may be 11 million illegals at the most.

Those citing 20mm are brain damaged at best or have syphilitic paresis at worse.

Wouldn't all those illegals be where there is housing, schools, jobs, and not counties without them?

 

[Zincwarrior]

Yep, hospitals are expensive to run, doctors, nurses, and staff aren't free....not to mention the equipment, as well as real estate.

When you don't have a big customer base, it's hard to maintain....and in the case you brought up, especially when you are 30 miles from Houston!

Houston has the largest medical complexes in the world, literally. Why are illegals not driving their hospitals out of business vs. rural hospitals?

 

[struth]

Houston has the largest medical complexes in the world, literally. Why are illegals not driving their hospitals out of business vs. rural hospitals?

I never said illegals were driving rural hosptials out of business, but I am sure it has alot to do with the fact that Houston hospitals have a lot of clients then just illegals

 

[elektra]

WTF?

Yes, you response shows you know nothing

 

[debbiedowner]

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That's what happens to hospitals and schools when an estimated 20 million illegals are allowed to flood into the U.S.

Sources:

Illegal Immigrants Leave US Hospitals With Billions in Unpaid Bills | @AmacforAmerica

Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants are flooding U.S. hospitals for treatment and leaving billions in uncompensated health care costs

amac.us

xxxxxxxxxx​

The Consequences of Unchecked Illegal Immigration on America’s Public Schools

The Issue Under President Joe Biden in fiscal year (FY) 2023, the United States had the highest number of illegal-alien encounters in its history, with more than 3 million individuals entering the country illegally. There are currently no reliable counts of total enrollment in public schools of...

www.heritage.org

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https://www.foxnews.com/us/denver-h...-Dobailout-as-illegal-immigrants-flood-system

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https://homeland.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CHSPreliminaryReport.pdf

All those illegals in PA. Do you blame your constipation on illegals?

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

There may be 11 million illegals.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

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More likely too many illegal aliens using the hospital.

My first thought.

 

[Zincwarrior]

My first thought.

Your view is that illegals are killing rural hospitals but not urban hospitals, where there are many more of them? How is that logical to you?

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Your view is that illegals are killing rural hospitals but not urban hospitals, where there are many more of them? How is that logical to you?

Urban hospitals have much more money available. They have more workers available. When a patient doesn't pay, what do you think happens? Illegals don't pay. It's a loss. Rural hospitals are unable to absorb those costs.