Overview

• Residents, staff and local officials rallied Monday, urging Weiss’s owner to appeal the federal action by Sept. 24 to restore emergency and inpatient services.
• CMS cut the hospital from Medicare and Medicaid after state inspections tied to summer HVAC failures documented deficiencies, including a makeshift ER lacking basic equipment.
• An inspection account described clinicians improvising a tourniquet for a fireworks injury and transferring the patient to another hospital.
• Resilience Health says it has engaged a law firm and plans to file a timely appeal while pursuing state grants for repairs, a claim community leaders questioned.
• Roughly 700 employees have been affected since the ER closed on Aug. 8 and inpatient care halted, and federal surveyors placed the hospital’s license on hold.