WARREN, Ohio – Insight Health System plans to reapply for its license to operate Insight Hospital and Medical Center Trumbull, a Trumbull County official said.
Insight agreed to surrender the license through a settlement with the Ohio Department of Health over violations at the hospital.
Commissioner Rick Hernandez said Thursday he spoke with an Insight representative after Wednesday’s announcement regarding the license and learned the health company sees the agreement to give it up as more of a reset in the process.
According to Hernandez, Insight agreed to turn in its license with the understanding that it could resubmit an application for it.
“It’s not that they’re not interested or if they’re out of it, but that was what they basically had to do to restart the process,” Hernandez said.
The agreement obtained from ODH said Insight would surrender its license by the close of business Jan. 16. It also lays out the steps Insight can take to submit a new hospital application, including the steps to getting deficiencies resolved and how Insight can obtain a temporary license.
Hernandez’s comments came following Thursday’s Trumbull County commissioners meeting where the situation with the hospital did not come up. Hernandez said he is no longer feeling “cautiously optimistic” but still hopes that when the jobs are filled with Kimberly-Clark, Foxconn and Amazon, as well as a few projects that have not been announced, there will be more interest in the hospital.
“We’re thinking by the end of next year, we should see every bit of about 2,500 to 3,000 additional jobs here,” he said.
He added that does not count additional jobs Kimberly-Clark is considering following the road vacation on Pine Avenue, which will give the company the opportunity to develop more of its property. It also does not count ancillary jobs that come about because of Kimberly-Clark.
“I think that is what is going to start the boom, not only for Trumbull County, but for the Mahoning Valley in general,” Hernandez said.
Insight Hospital & Medical Center Trumbull and Insight Rehabilitation Hospital Hillside in Howland, which were both obtained by Insight through Steward Health Care System’s bankruptcy, closed in March 2025. Insight cited a lack of transferred dollars owed for services delivered at both hospitals.
Insight reopened the Warren hospital’s emergency room Oct. 14, with plans to reopen other services in phases.
However, when the hospital closed again in November, a statement from Insight claimed regulatory hurdles and barriers from ODH affected the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services certification.
ODH had given Insight until mid-December to correct violations at the hospital, including building maintenance and water management.