Heritage Valley Health System's Kennedy Hospital is closing its doors for good on Monday. The hospital's finances haven't been in good shape for a while, and care will come to a close at the Kennedy Township hospital, leaving patients looking for other places to go. It was just two years ago that the hospital's Intensive Care Unit was closed down, along with cutting its number of beds from 120 to 77. Things continued to get more dire after that. Heritage Valley says the decline in patient volume and commercial insurance reimbursement is behind the closure.
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