White Rock Medical Center stopped accepting patients transported by emergency medical services this weekend after laying off nearly 35% of its staff due to an ongoing lawsuit with the hospital's former owner.
White Rock Medical Center's general counsel and director said the suspension of admitting patients by ambulance was done “out of an abundance of caution” to ensure that the 158 layoffs would not disrupt patient care at the Level IV Trauma Center. ” stated that it was done. Terry Fokas, restructuring officer; Before the cuts, the hospital had 460 staff members.
Phocas estimated White Rock would resume accepting emergency patients by Wednesday.
The North Central Texas Trauma Regional Advisory Committee, the governing body responsible for the trauma and emergency medical system in the North Texas region, confirmed the suspension of emergency transport to White Rock Hospital.
“Our role is to ensure that this information is transmitted to affected EDs and other hospitals,” said Jacob Sayle, director of information and support services at NCTTRAC. I am. “We can confirm that this information was posted to the appropriate communications platform.”
The hospital has changed hands and names multiple times throughout its history, most recently last fall when Texas Heights Healthcare Inc. acquired it from Pipeline Health Inc. This hospital opened in 1958 as Doctors Hospital and became Baylor Scott & White Medical Center White Rock in 2016.
California-based Pipeline bought the medical center from Texas health systems giants Baylor Scott & White Health and Tenet Healthcare, which it jointly owned for about two years. Pipeline filed for bankruptcy in 2022 and sold two Chicago hospitals in 2023.
Heights Healthcare and Pipeline, which owns five hospitals in Houston, are in litigation in Dallas County court over the sale of the medical center. Mr. Fokas attributed the recent layoffs to legal costs.
A spokesperson for Pipeline said the health care provider had no comment at this time.
