As holidays near, many employees are concerned about the security of their jobs and are scared for the future of the community if the closure happens.
"What the community is going to be like without this hospital -- 100% it's going to be devastating," said Dr. Chinedu Igwe, director of Structural Heart Disease and program vice chair of Medicine.
The loss will impact those seeking health care services, nearby hospitals and the hundreds of those still employed at the hospital.
Chief Medical Officer Dr. Nick Abbott says if the closure happens, the gap will not be filled by another local hospital.
"They will not expand services to provide something like that. So, the closest intervention that someone could have is 30 minutes away, which literally would be life or death of lot of the times," Abbott said.
Sharon Regional is the only accredited cardiac and stroke center in Mercer County, and any delay in care is putting lives at risk.
"Heart disease is still the number one killer of Americans today, and that is what we specialize in at Sharon Regional for sure. In addition to that, we have a whole cadre of services that would be impactful for the community," said Brandon Mikolich, director of cardiology.
Igwe saved one man's life days ago by giving him an emergency cardiac stent, and he would not have survived the transfer to another facility. EMS responders and an ambulance company have also expressed their concern over the community's need for the hospital's heart services.
Igwe says one advantage of Sharon Regional is the history the hospital has with the community.
"They're not coming from far away. You already know their back story, so that makes it a to easier to treat them. Now, if we get all these patients down an hour away to other hospitals, these records are going to get lost," Igwe said.
Sharon Regional is also the only hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient psychological and behavioral services for adults and adolescents in the area -- serving hundreds in outpatient services and an average of 25 people in the inpatient facility.
Dr. Wally Novero says the lack of services will hurt the community mentally and economically.
"People with mental illness, you know, a lot of bad things can happen through that. It'll increase crime, it'll increase homicidality, increase suicidality, increase people being unable to go to work," Novero said.
The plan to save the hospital fell through when Meadville Medical pulled out from the deal, citing the Buhl Foundation. Chief of Medical Staff Dr. Sheetal Nijhawan said the Buhl Foundation's lack of financial support has been disappointing.
"They're in a very good position to help us out now at this time to buy back the hospital, put it back on the right track, and it was very disappointing to me that they were unable to put this money in or they felt unable or unwilling to put this money in for the sake of the hospital," Nijhawan said.
Nijhawan added that Tenor Health Partners is interested in taking over operations and will be making a case to the commonwealth on Monday.