Sharon Regional Medical Center is now up and running under the ownership of Tenor Health. Limited services started Tuesday morning including the Emergency Room, Med-Surge, Intensive Care Unit and Behavioral Health.

“[It] could not be better,” Butch Eavenson, the new CEO for Sharon Regional Hospital told 21 News. “Walking in this morning and seeing the smiling faces of the staff being back at work, incredible”

For now, the fourth floor of the hospital is open to patients and holds 12 regular beds and a handful of ICU beds. 

The fifth and sixth floors are closed and will need some maintenance and cosmetic upgrades before they open.  

“Over the past two months we’ve done a tremendous amount of upgrades to the building and the facility itself and that's an ongoing project for us to make sure that we have a high quality facility,” Eavenson said. 

Eavenson said there is not much of a learning curve for employees yet. Staff will still be using the same charting system as before so all previous patent history is still on file for the doctors and nurses.

Insight Hospital ran into issues with their charting system when taking over a Steward Hospital in Warren. After acquiring the facility, Steward sold their management functions to a third party without Insights consent. The sale affected the systems the entire hospital used and forced the facility to temporarily stop accepting patients. 

Eavenson believes they won’t run into that issue and will gradually switch to their own system over the next 18 months. 

“The part of that had to do with signing on for the transitional service agreement. We’ve already done that … over the next few months as we get on our own systems we’ll be dropping off,” Eavenson said. 

Under the new ownership the facility is fully up and running under a not-for-profit status.

“All of the dollars generated from this facility stays here in the community with the building, with the staff,” Eavenson said. “So, none of these dollars flow out to anyone's pocket.”

Tenor Health bought the hospital from Steward Health during a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. The hospital shut down on Jan. 6 and stayed closed for more than two months. Once Tenor received approval from the Pennsylvania Department of Health they reopened some of their services.  

Hospital administrators have indicated they do plan to open more services like surgeries and the cath lab in the future.