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By BARBARA GREEN
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Less than a month before its first anniversary, the Faith Community Emergency Room in Bowie will close at 7 a.m. on October 6.
Frank L. Beaman, CEO of Faith Community Health System, confirmed the closure to The Bowie News in a statement on Monday. Several emergency department staff members had already contacted The Bowie News about the closure.
In the statement, Beaman said evaluations of the plant's productivity, utilization and profitability, as well as comparisons of actual data with forecasts, showed that “the plant is not meeting the forecasts required to maintain operations.”
The goal was still to provide emergency care for Level IV trauma, and this effort was successful and rewarded with positive feedback, but there was no utilization and referral to the Faith Community Health System main campus.
“Operating a virtually stand-alone emergency department is simply not sustainable without greater financial support from the community,” Beaman explained.
The grand opening of the emergency department took place on October 23, 2023, after more than two years of work to renovate and repair the old hospital. In mid-August 2021, Faith Community Health System officials announced their intention to open the emergency department as a branch of their Jacksboro facility.

Bowie City Manager Bert Cunningham called the closure “heartbreaking news.”
“Bowie needs medical care close to home, not out of town. Hopefully more opportunities will arise as the building has been modernized and updated by the owners,” the manager said.

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