Wyoming County Community Health System (WCCHS) announced on Nov. 5 that the dialysis clinic located at 11 Murray Hill Drive in Mt. Morris, NY will be closing due to ongoing staffing challenges and financial losses.
“Operating a small dialysis clinic in a rural location has proven to be extremely challenging,” WCCHS CEO David Kobis noted in a statement. “Finding and retaining sufficient qualified staff to ensure safe patient care is our most critical priority. To compound matters the reimbursement for the clinic is not sufficient to cover operating costs, which has resulted in more than $2M in County funding loses since 2022.”
“It is unfortunate, but WCCHS cannot sustain this level of financial loss year after year," Kobis added. "We will assist in finding alternative treatment locations for all of our current patients.”
WCCHS has submitted a closure plan to the NY State Department of Health, but no timeline for the closing has been released publicly.
News coverage is available from the Livingston County News, The Daily News Online, and The Buffalo News.
Update Nov. 14, 2024: Additional coverage from the Livingston County News.
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