Job Fair Held For Displaced Bay Area Hospital Employees

WEBSTER, TX — Employees at Bay Area Regional Medical Center who were caught off guard by Friday’s announcement that the hospital will declare bankruptcy and close their doors for good this week, were invited to two local job fairs on Monday.

On Monday, HCA Healthcare’s Gulf Coast Division hosted a job fair fro 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. for those soon-to-be displaced employees at Clear Lake Regional Medical Center’s Heart and Vascular Hospital Searcy Auditorium in Webster.

Memorial Hermann Southeast, located at 11800 Astoria Blvd., is hosting a job fair for the next three days in the Professional Building classroom on the second floor.

The job fair will be held until 4 p.m. Monday, and again from 3-7 p.m. Tuesday, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesday.

As many as 900 employees were impacted by Friday’s announcement.

On Monday morning, a sign placed on the hospital’s front door announced the facility was closed and not accepting patients, and that former or existing patients could pick up their records.

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The announcement was made Friday in a press release posted on the company's website.

"It is with a heavy heart that I announce that Bay Area Regional will close its doors on May 10, 2018," Stephen K. Jones, Jr., CEO at Bay Area Regional said in a statement. "We want to thank our staff who worked tirelessly, physicians who chose to practice medicine and patients who received care at our hospital."

Bay Area Regional Hospital officially opened its doors just four years ago, and invested $200 million during the past five years during construction and operation.

The hospital has since begun transferring critical care patients to other facilities, and discharging other patients.

The hospital will be closed by May 10.

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