Insight Health System wants to talk, and the union representing Insight Trumbull’s furloughed registered nurses will be up first.

The Michigan-based health care system is taking steps to reopen after closing its facilities in late March. With the acquisition of its Medicare license for its Warren hospital, Insight approached American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Ohio Council 8 Local 2026 and set up a meeting for today.

“We’re going to wait and see what they have to say,” Local 2026 President Tom Connelly said Monday. “Right now, we’re talking about the potential for recall of our employees and reopening the hospital.”

He said both sides have agreed to refrain from discussing publicly what the topics will be. An Insight spokesman declined to discuss matters involving contract talks.

Despite closing its Trumbull County facilities, Insight has contracts with three unions staffing Insight Trumbull and Insight Hillside. Those had been negotiated with now-bankrupt Steward Health Care, the previous owner.

Connelly said the 225 nurses his union represents have two years left on their pact.

“I really don’t know whether they’re considered contract talks or not,” he said of today’s meeting.

Connelly said he is guardedly optimistic Insight will resume operations in Warren.

“I’m hoping that they’re in earnest. I believe that they are,” he said. “Whether they can accomplish what they want to accomplish, I don’t know. The union is committed to helping them as much as we can.”

The union president said he did not know the current number of members without jobs.

“I know that a lot of them have taken jobs elsewhere,” Connelly said. “I don’t know how they feel about those jobs elsewhere. I don’t know how they’ll respond to a callback.

“I don’t know about the level of trust they have in their hearts for Insight. All of those things have to be managed if they want my members to come back.”

Connelly said he wants to see them back to work and return Trumbull County’s health care services to prior staffing levels.

After its meeting scheduled for today with the union, Insight will meet with county commissioners in a public session at 1 p.m. Aug. 5 to discuss Hillside and Trumbull.

Insight Trumbull’s second union, Service Employees International Union District 1199, said it had been contacted to meet with Insight. No date had been scheduled as of Friday.

The Ohio Nurses Association, a union representing nurses at Insight Hillside in Howland, said it is “waiting on Insight to schedule a negotiation session.”