Northridge Medical Center in Commerce is closing, a casualty of economic conditions caused in part by the response to the coronavirus pandemic. Operators of the 90-bed non-profit hospital in Jackson County say the facility will close at the end of October. Northridge says its nursing home facility will remain open.

From the AJC…

This week, officials at Northridge Medical Center in Commerce announced the closure of their 90-bed acute care hospital northeast of Atlanta. Late last month, officials at Southwest Georgia Regional Medical Center announced the closure of the Cuthbert facility, with the pressures from COVID-19 pushing it finances over the brink.

The closures are scheduled within roughly a week of each other. The Cuthbert hospital expects to cease operations Oct. 22, the Commerce hospital on Oct. 31.

“The decision to close and cease hospital operations was not one made lightly and only comes after exhausting all options to identify a sustainable path forward,’' said Amy Abel, a spokeswoman for the entities that control the Commerce hospital, a wholly owned subsidiary of Home & Community Services Inc., a Georgia nonprofit.

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