Kaleida Health Files 80-Worker WARN Notice for The Pavilion Closure in Bradford, PA
An 80-worker WARN filing for The Pavilion at Bradford, Pennsylvania, marks the end of a long-term care facility that has been at the center of a months-long fight over rural hospital closures. The closure is expected on or before December 1, 2026, after a proposed sale of the hospital campus fell through — and the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office is now reviewing how the whole thing was handled.
The filing at a glance
- Employer: Kaleida Health (The Pavilion at Bradford)
- Location: Bradford, Pennsylvania (McKean County)
- Workers affected: 80
- Effective date: On or before December 1, 2026
- Facility: Long-term care nursing facility serving 45 residents
The WARN record appears in the Layoff Atlas registry as a secondary record attributed to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. Pennsylvania's direct official feed has not synced new filings recently, so records like this one arrive through attributed secondary sources — worth keeping in mind when reading the numbers.
A closure that has been building for months
The Pavilion's closure is not sudden. Kaleida Health, a Buffalo, New York-based health system, first filed a closure notice on February 16 for inpatient, emergency, and long-term care services at the former Bradford Regional Medical Center campus, citing financial pressures that made operating the facility unsustainable.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health approved that plan with a closure date of May 2. But in late February, the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) opened discussions about a potential acquisition of the campus, and Kaleida paused the closure to explore whether a deal could offer a sustainable path forward.
Months of negotiation ended in early September, when the LECOM board of directors voted on September 8 not to move forward. Kaleida was notified on September 9, and with no buyer in place, it resubmitted its closure plan to the state — accepted by the Pennsylvania Department of Health on September 14.
The Pavilion, the campus's long-term care facility, is now set to close on or before December 1.
The Attorney General gets involved
The closure has drawn state-level scrutiny. On October 19, State Representative Martin Causer and State Senator Cris Dush announced that the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, led by Dave Sunday, had pledged to review Kaleida Health's actions related to the closure and failed sale of Bradford Regional Medical Center and The Pavilion.
The lawmakers' concerns are specific: Kaleida's insistence on a non-compete clause in any contract involving the sale of the medical center and nursing facility raises potential antitrust questions. They also flagged issues around the original charitable purpose of Bradford Hospital and how its charitable assets have been handled.
"Our community is suffering and lives are being placed at risk due to Kaleida's self-serving decisions to close our local hospital and then refuse to sell it to any other health care provider without a non-compete clause as part of the transaction," Causer said in a joint statement.
For now, the Attorney General's office has pledged to examine the situation — no formal investigation has been announced, and no conclusions have been reached. But for workers and residents in the Bradford region, the review signals that the closure is not passing quietly.
What happens to the workers
Kaleida has said its top priority is supporting resident health and safety during the transition, and that staff will work with residents and their families to find alternative care. There are two other long-term care facilities in Bradford and six additional facilities in the area, which offers some landing spots for the 45 residents.
For the 80 affected employees, Kaleida has committed to helping them find other jobs within the system, including at Olean General Hospital across the state line in New York. That is a real offer — but it is also a reminder that WARN numbers describe reported plans, not confirmed job losses. Some of these workers may transfer; others will need to job-hunt in a rural county where the local hospital campus is winding down.
The national picture
The Pavilion filing lands in a registry currently holding 701 notices covering 65,974 reported workers over the 90-day window, with 33 notices missing worker counts. Washington (16,938), California (14,224), Illinois (4,626), Texas (3,652), and Ohio (3,180) lead the state rankings. Pennsylvania's archive holds 1,901 imported notices reporting 256,522 workers affected, with 78 notices and 12,181 reported workers so far in 2026.
Health care closures like this one are part of a wider strain on rural facilities, where staffing costs, reimbursement gaps, and declining demand make long-term care operations especially fragile. The Pavilion's story — financial pressure, a failed rescue deal, and now state scrutiny — is an unusually well-documented version of a pattern playing out quietly across the country.
Data source: Layoff Atlas
