An $18 million state grant will help keep bankrupt Eastern Niagara Hospital afloat while helping Catholic Health purchase technology for its planned new Lockport hospital, The Buffalo News reports.
The grant includes $4 million for Eastern Niagara, which signed a management agreement with Catholic Health after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in November 2019.
Eastern Niagara is to close in 2023, upon the opening of the new $66 million Lockport Memorial Campus of Mount St. Mary’s Hospital, to be built in the Town of Lockport. Read more.
