It's now been more than two weeks since Sharon Regional Medical Center closed its doors and stopped accepting patients. Now, a newly-released report offers a glimpse into what the hospital's final days looked like.

A filing in federal court details a visit from an Ombudsman to the hospital on December 10, just days after Steward Health threatened to close it.

During this time, the hospital had 163 beds, employed about 700 staff members. According to the document, 54 patients were in the hospital on the day of the visit.

The filing states Sharon Regional was the only facility in the Shenango Valley to have offered a cardiac catheterization lab, inpatient child psychiatry services, an intensive care unit (ICU) and drug testing for public transportation.

It was also the only hospital in the area with American College of Cardiology Chest Pain Accreditation and a Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and
Primary Stroke Center that are accredited by the Joint Commission.

According to the filing, the hospital's catheterization lab performed about five cases per day, the outpatient surgery department scheduled about 13 cases per day, and the operating room performed 10 to 12 cases on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and eight to 10 cases on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays.

According to the filing, a second Ombudsman visit took place December 23, when the threat of closure was drawing ever closer.

This time around, the filing notes a staffing crisis in the emergency department with no physician coverage on December 24, 25 and 28, as well as January 1 due to a Locum Agency physician backing out of her contract.

According to the filing, these shifts were covered by the end of the visit.

Additionally, the filing states the hospital stopped accepting new patients December 17 and all elective procedures were stopped December 20.

This time around, there were three medical/surgical patients and 12 behavioral health patients with an even split between adults and adolescents. Six more patients were being treated in the emergency department.

The hospital was adequately staffed the day of the second visit.

According to the filing, the hospital discharged its final inpatient December 31 and its final emergency department patient January 4. The hospital closed its doors January 6.

Since the hospital's closure, efforts have been ongoing to have the hospital reopened, however nothing has been set in stone at this time. You can read much more about efforts to reopen the hospital in our related coverage below.

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