{"id":418159,"date":"2026-01-20T06:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/418159\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T06:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:18:19","slug":"camden-hospital-to-file-chapter-11-as-financial-struggles-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/418159\/","title":{"rendered":"Camden Hospital to File Chapter 11 as Financial Struggles Mount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"920\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/OuachitaCountyMedicalCenter-920x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-920x615 size-920x615\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOuachita County Medical Center (Photo provided)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Ouachita County Medical Center of Camden plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization this month, said hospital CEO Glenda Harper.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital has about $8 million of debt and closed its obstetrics unit earlier this month in a cost-saving measure.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital has applied to become a rural emergency hospital in which the hospital provides emergency services and only admits patients for an average of less than 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Harper is hopeful for an injection of cash from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which can\u2019t be used for salaries or operating expenses but can be used for projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re struggling day to day but we certainly are planning on being here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ouachita County Medical Center (Photo provided) Ouachita County Medical Center of Camden plans to file for Chapter 11&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":{"0":"post-418159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}