Pacific Health Corporation’s Anaheim General and Newport Specialty Hospitals will close, effective May 23 of this year, along with Anaheim General’s 31-bed skilled nursing facility. Anaheim General is a 172-bed acute-care facility that until this month, operated an emergency room; Newport Specialty is a 177-bed long-term acute-care facility.

The loss to the county is particularly significant on the sub-acute side, since hospitals with distinct part skilled nursing facilities are facing devastating Medi-Cal cuts that could threaten those units’ survival. This would severely limit sub-acute and long-term care capacity in the county.

The hospitals have not been HASC members for the past year.

Contact: Julie Puentes
(714) 663-0294, jpuentes@hasc.org