Overview
- The facility said it is filing its application with Alabama’s State Health Planning and Development Agency on Nov. 13 to begin the conversion.
- Inpatient admissions will cease as operations are restructured to comply with Rural Emergency Hospital requirements.
- About 90 positions across multiple departments will be eliminated as part of the transition.
- Local reporting indicates patients should continue using the facility through the end of 2025 and into early 2026 during the changeover.
- The Rural Emergency Hospital designation, created in 2021, preserves emergency and other outpatient services in communities that cannot sustain full inpatient hospitals.