High Point Regional closing patient care unit
HIGH POINT — High Point Regional Health System will close its restorative care unit later this month and has identified other staff cuts.
"Unfortunately, these changes affect 51 employees," Jeff Miller, president of the High Point Regional Health System, said in a press release Monday.
Miller said they will offer other positions within the health system to most of those workers. Otherwise severance packages will be offered and they will make them eligible for rehire, he said.
The hospital expects the changes will save about $750,000 annually.
"Health care is not immune to present economic conditions," Miller said.
The restorative care unit opened in 1993 to meet a community need for nursing home beds. When the hospital's Inpatient Rehab Center opened in 2003, the restorative care unit was cut nearly in half.
Patients currently receiving care at the restorative care unit will be relocated.
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