Meanwhile, Becker's Hospital Review has tracked six hospital and emergency department closures so far this year, against 23 in all of 2025 and 25 in 2024. The center has also counted dozens of hospitals that ended inpatient services entirely in order to qualify as rural emergency hospitals, a designation that preserves an emergency department but eliminates inpatient beds. MedicalDaily reported that Sturgis had already converted to the federal rural emergency hospital model, the designation created to preserve emergency access, and closed anyway three years later. It is ending inpatient care, emergency services, and other hospital-based operations at Henry Ford River District Hospital in East China Township on September 1, while keeping primary care and infusion services on the same campus. Labor and delivery has been the most visible, with 139 rural closures or planned closures since the end of 2020.