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North Adams Regional Hospital was a full-service community hospital in North Adams, Massachusetts. It served the Northern Berkshire communities of Adams, Cheshire, Clarksburg, Florida, Lanesborough, North Adams, Savoy, Williamstown and communities in southern Vermont and in eastern New York state. The hospital was part of Northern Berkshire Healthcare (NBH), a not-for-profit organization. NBH closed it on 28 March 2014. ==History== The hospital opened March 2, 1884 and the original building was expanded over time. A completely new hospital building on the same campus opened in 1955. A few decades ago the North Adams Hospital’s (now known as the North Adams Regional Hospital or NARH) census was quite full. However, better medications and treatments for chronic illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes and asthma reduced the need for inpatient hospitalizations and many surgical procedures which had once occurred in the inpatient setting shifted to outpatient facilities. Beset by chronically low inpatient censuses in recent years, declining reimbursement from Medicaid and Medicare, and facing rising costs, many rural hospitals, not just NARH, have scrambled to stay alive. Some have turned to larger health systems for financial backing or partnership. The result has been a surge of mergers, affiliations and other collaborations. During its entry into Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2011 and its emergence in 2012, NARH had been working on an affiliation with Berkshire Medical Center (BMC) in Pittsfield, MA. That merger didn’t occur because of BMC’s unwillingness to assume NARH’s bond debt and existing union contracts. After declaration of Chapter 7 bankruptcy on April 3, 2014,〔United States Bankruptcy Court – District of Massachusetts - Case 14-30327 Doc 1 〕 BMC then committed to purchasing the NARH facility through the bankruptcy process. During the interim BMC re-established emergency medical care and other medical services in northern Berkshire County.〔United States Bankruptcy Court – District of Massachusetts - Case 14-30327 Doc 70 〕 BMC, paid a total $3.4 million for the hospital campus and NBH's fixed assets and $600,000 for the Northern Berkshire Family Practice. The purchased was finalized in Bankruptcy Court on August 29th, 2014.〔http://www.iberkshires.com/story/47357/BMC-Closes-on-North-Adams-Hospital-Property.html?source=most_read〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「North Adams Regional Hospital」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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