Sharon Regional Medical Center set to reopen Tuesday under new ownership
The hospital, under the ownership of California-based Tenor Health, received the regulatory go-ahead from the Pennsylvania Department of Health late Friday. Tenor Health, which has been in preparation for the reopening for two months, held a community event Sunday.
'It was a full house today at Sharon Regional Medical Center as we came together to celebrate a new chapter for this local community hospital,' state Sen. Michele Brooks, R-50th District, said Sunday on Facebook. 'Opening Tuesday!'
Sharon Regional Medical Center closed on Jan. 5 despite efforts from the Shapiro administration and others to keep it open. The 163-bed hospital employed 800 people. But even amid its closing, Tenor Health — a hospital management company — had been working with the owner of the property, Medical Properties Trust, and others to reopen the hospital.
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