{"id":762381,"date":"2026-04-29T23:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/762381\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T23:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:07:15","slug":"fort-smith-hospital-trims-services-leaving-emergency-room-and-surgery-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/762381\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Smith hospital trims services, leaving emergency room and surgery open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tANNOUNCE WHETHER LOAN OPPORTUNITIES WILL BECOME AVAILABLE. &gt;&gt; MORE CUTS ARE BEING MADE AT BAPTIST HEALTH HOSPITAL IN FORT SMITH, ACCORDING TO A NEWS RELEASE. THE HOSPITAL PLANS TO SHUT DOWN ITS CARDIOLOGY PEDIATRIC NEUROLOGY, INFECTIOUS DISEASE, RENAL AND ONCOLOGY CLINICS. NOW, THE CHANGES ARE GOING TO HAPPEN OVER THE NEXT 60 DAYS. ABOUT 150 WORKERS A\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Baptist Health Fort Smith to shut multiple clinics after labor and delivery closure<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/khbs.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"KHBS logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 5:18 PM CDT Apr 29, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.4029tv.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSeveral healthcare services will be cut from Baptist Health in Fort Smith, according to a news release sent by the company.Over the next 60 days, Baptist Health Fort Smith will shut down its cardiology, pediatric, neurology, infectious disease, renal, and oncology clinics.It will also cease its nephrology, pulmonary, oncology, and infectious disease services.About 150 workers, including 10 physicians, will lose their jobs. The company plans to provide severance pay and career transition support.The emergency department, operating rooms and surgical services, medical-surgical nursing, including low-acuity ICU beds, geriatric psychiatry, and radiology services will remain open.This comes a day after labor and delivery services closed.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong class=\"dateline\">FORT SMITH, Ark. \u2014<\/strong> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Several healthcare services will be cut from Baptist Health in Fort Smith, according to a news release sent by the company.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next 60 days, Baptist Health Fort Smith will shut down its cardiology, pediatric, neurology, infectious disease, renal, and oncology clinics.<\/p>\n<p>It will also cease its nephrology, pulmonary, oncology, and infectious disease services.<br \/>About 150 workers, including 10 physicians, will lose their jobs. The company plans to provide severance pay and career transition support.<\/p>\n<p>The emergency department, operating rooms and surgical services, medical-surgical nursing, including low-acuity ICU beds, geriatric psychiatry, and radiology services will remain open.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.4029tv.com\/article\/baptist-health-fort-smith-labor-and-delivery-nurses-say-goodbye-as-unit-closes\/71155359\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This comes a day after labor and delivery services closed<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANNOUNCE WHETHER LOAN OPPORTUNITIES WILL BECOME AVAILABLE. &gt;&gt; MORE CUTS ARE BEING MADE AT BAPTIST HEALTH HOSPITAL IN&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":762382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[35],"tags":[313317,14212,313321,638,2385,96359,148002,210,1141,1142,1856,8042,313322,313320,912,313318,152419,313319,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-762381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-baptist-health-fort-smith","tag-cardiology","tag-career-transition-support","tag-company","tag-day","tag-emergency-department","tag-emergency-room","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-infectious-disease","tag-job","tag-low-acuity-icu-bed","tag-medical-surgical-nursing","tag-neurology","tag-oncology-clinic","tag-pediatric","tag-surgical-service","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116490511910593815","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}