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Astria Health nurses’ hospital closure reconsideration motion denied
By Caroline Salls
Pittsburgh, Jan. 15 – A motion filed by Astria Health nurses union, the Washington State Nurses Association (WSNA) for reconsideration of an order approving the closure of Astria Regional Medical Center in Yakima, Wash., was denied, according to a minute entry made Tuesday in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Washington.
As previously reported, the WSNA said the Jan. 8 ruling allowing Astria to close the medical center “will have a profound negative impact on the community that the medical center serves, depriving local residents of a trauma center that provides emergency care to those in urgent need.”
In addition, the union said the closure “will also upend the lives of scores of dedicated professionals employed at the medical center.”
According to the motion, the court entered its order without giving any notice or any chance to be heard to parties in interest, including the WSNA.
The WSNA said Astria filed an emergency motion for approval of the closure, “even though no emergency exists,” and filed the motion under seal “precisely in order to keep the employees, patients and the members of the local community in the dark about its plan, and to prevent them from raising any opposition to it in this court.”
Because the medical center provides services that are not otherwise available in the surrounding community, the WSNA said the court did not have adequate information when it determined that the motion was based on a business judgment.
Astria Health is a Yakima, Wash., health care facility operator. The company filed bankruptcy on May 6, 2019 under Chapter 11 case number 19-01189.
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