Sharon Regional Medical Center could close on Monday, January 6, unless a potential buyer comes forward to save the Steward-owned hospital.

This comes as Steward Health filed for bankruptcy and put all 31 hospitals nationwide up for sale. Yet another rally took place just after the Christmas holiday, as hundreds of jobs and access to healthcare are on the line.

Approximately 100 ralliers lined Sharon's East State Street Thursday evening, standing in solidarity against Sharon Regional's potential closure.

"We're just really, really concerned for the community at large," said Kemily Benes of Transfer. "Many, many families have relied on this for years and years. There are many local people who walk here."

"We are the only certified primary care center in Mercer County," said Eileen Kelly, Stroke Program Coordinator and Quality RN with Sharon Regional Medical Center. "The service that we offer here both for chest pain and stroke is exceptional and it's just going to be a really big loss."

"Those moments could literally mean life and death," Benes added. She has several family members out of the 700 employees working at the hospital who have "dedicated their entire lives to the facility."

With 700 jobs in jeopardy and ongoing hospital accessibility concerns, people like Rachel Caldwell explained to 21 News how Sharon Regional's cardiac unit saved her dad's life. Her father, Robert Bechtel, suffered a heart attack this past fall and was able to get a heart cath 30 minutes upon arrival. 

"The doctor said, 'We don't have time to wait. He has to go now," Caldwell explained. "They cared about him. The heart cath that he did here, he was crashing on the table but they were able to stabilize him to get a critical care ambulance up from Allegheny to take him down there."

Sharon Regional doctors followed up on Bechtel's health even after he was transferred. He recently passed away from an unrelated medical event, but Caldwell's forever grateful for Sharon Regional's care.

"I was able to have two more weeks with him because of the care that he received here," she said. "If he had not had that care, he would have been dead that day. Time matters. People need this care. If he had been taken to UPMC Horizon, which is five minutes from his house, he would have been dead because they did not give him the ability to give him the care and procedures that he needed."

Sharon Regional employees told 21 News they haven't been provided any job relocation assistance, knowing they could be out of a job in less than two weeks.

"Administration has been transparent with us as much as they can be. They can only say what they know," Kelly added.

"There's so much up in the air that's unknown," said Tre Black, Physician Assistant and Head Outpatient Behavioral Health Provider/ Inpatient Mental Health Unit with Sharon Regional Medical Center. "We really can't get any concrete answers."

As of this Thursday evening-- no buyer has come forward with an offer.