WARREN, Ohio – A company that leased equipment to the now-closed Insight Hospital & Medical Center Trumbull wants its equipment back.
Post Road Equipment Finance SPV LLC filed a supplemental request this week in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Houston asking the judge to allow it to retrieve its equipment.
In March, Post Road filed an emergency motion claiming Insight Health System had agreed to make payments on the equipment when it took over operations of the Warren hospital from Steward Health Care System but didn’t.
The court documents filed Wednesday ask for bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez to enforce the sale order between Steward and Insight and to direct Insight to allow Post Road to immediately remove all of its equipment from the shuttered hospital.
A hearing is set for April 30 regarding the Post Road motions.
According to Wednesday’s filing, Post Road’s executive vice president of equipment placement services, serving as a repossession agent for the company, was supposed to meet Akram Kahn, director of operations at Insight Hospital & Medical Center Trumbull, to begin reclaiming the equipment. Court documents claim Kahn canceled the meeting by email minutes before the scheduled meeting.
When he arrived at the hospital, the repossession agent found the hospital shuttered. A photograph submitted to the court shows a sign on the hospital door announcing its March 27 closure. Court documents say a security officer employed at the hospital told the repossession agent that he had seen equipment being removed from the hospital.
Court documents say the lease pertains to surgical equipment, medical imaging equipment, hospital beds, ventilators and medical robotics equipment.
Insight Health, which took over operations of both the Warren hospital and Insight Rehabilitation Hospital Hillside in Howland, slowly cut back on services over a two-week period last month and eventually closed the facilities.
Insight said it plans to reopen the hospitals after issues with Steward are resolved. Insight claims Steward controlled billing and patient records and has failed to pay it for services rendered.