Nix Medical Center In Downtown San Antonio To Close; Behavioral Health Facilities Will Remain Open

The Nix Medical Center is closing its 208-bed acute care facility in San Antonio, Texas; the provider organization’s two behavioral health service locations will stay open. The hospital’s Los Angeles parent company, Prospect Medical Holdings, Inc. (Prospect), notified the Texas Workforce Commission in August 2019 indicating its intention to begin closing the downtown facility by October or November 2019 in order to focus its resources on maintaining and growing its behavioral health services in the San Antonio area.

Citing a “decline in community demand” for its acute care services at the downtown hospital, the company plans to . . .