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WARREN -- Trumbull Regional Medical Center is at the center of two lawsuits filed by local companies that allege they're owed thousands of dollars in unpaid bills by the hospital's operator, Steward Health Care System, for work done at or goods provided to the hospital.
Medical supply company Penn Care Inc. in Niles claims it is owed $67,940 by Steward Health Care System for goods provided to Trumbull Regional in late 2021 through 2022, according to the lawsuit in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.
Steward, the suit states, "failed to pay for some or all of these goods."
The lawsuit does not describe the items provided, however, it includes a four-page statement containing invoice numbers between October 2021 and July 2022.
It also includes a Nov. 21, 2023, demand letter from attorneys for Penn Care seeking payment within 10 days or risk legal action.
The lawsuit filed Jan. 3 is assigned to Judge Ronald Rice.
An earlier lawsuit filed by electrical contractor Becdel Controls, Inc., also of Niles, alleges it is owed $61,674 for electrical work the company performed at the East Market Street hospital over several weeks in 2023.
The case filed Dec. 28 is assigned to Judge Cynthia Rice.
A spokeswoman at Trumbull Regional declined to comment Monday.
Earlier this month, Steward, based in Texas, announced it sold select assets of its outreach lab services business that services patients and doctors in Ohio and Pennsylvania to New Jersey-based Quest Diagnostics, which will provide the testing at its full-service lab in Pittsburgh.
The conversion will happen over the next couple months.
Inpatient and outpatient lab locations at Trumbull Regional Medical Center in Warren and Sharon Regional Medical Center in Sharon, Pa., "are unaffected by the Quest transition" and Steward "will continue to operate these services with no disruption or change," according to a statement from a spokeswoman at Trumbull Regional.
That announcement came less than a week after reports that Steward, which operates hospitals in eight states, owes more than $50 million in unpaid rent to Medical Properties Trust Inc., one of the largest owners of hospital real estate in the world.