WARREN — Pending state approval, Insight Health System said Friday it will reopen its Warren facility.

One union official questioned if that will take place with the nurses he represents.

“In the initial reopening phase, Insight Hospital & Medical Center Trumbull will offer a 24-7 emergency department with supporting services including inpatient and outpatient services,” a health system spokesperson said in a news release. “Our vision is to expand from the initial reopening phase in response to the community’s needs.”

The health system said it is reaching out to its former workers.

“We’re grateful for the tremendous cooperation that has brought us to this pivotal point of soon reopening Trumbull as an Insight nonprofit hospital,” the release states. “The staff, nurses and doctors are the heart of the hospital, and employees are receiving communications about their potential return.”

An Ohio Department of Health spokesman said Friday that Insight is required to notify the agency of its plans to reopen so an inspection beforehand can be completed.

“ODH will be verifying that the hospital is capable of providing safe and efficient care to its patients,” the agency representative said.

The date of the inspection was not provided.

Insight suspended operations at 3 p.m. March 27 at all of its Valley locations, including Insight Trumbull and Insight Rehabilitation Hospital Hillside, Howland.

During the first week of August, Insight officials met in a public session with local, state and federal officials. Insight CEO Dr. Jawad Shah, said the health system has lost $30 million since it entered Trumbull County in November 2024. Those losses have been directly tied to former and bankrupt owner Steward Health Care, which handled billing payments for the nascent provider.

During the session, Shah committed to reopening Trumbull and satellite offices once staffing and licensing issues had been resolved. Efforts to reopen Hillside would follow, he said.

Insight management was scheduled to meet AFSCME Local 2026 at the time of the public session. Tom Connelly, Local 2026 president, referred to the one and only meeting as “disastrous.”

“I haven’t heard from them since then,” he said.

One issue involves Local 2026’s current contract.

“They wanted to roll back our raises,” Connelly said. “They wanted to have unlimited agency, unlimited outsourcing and just everything, including our lunch breaks and coffee breaks. They wanted to shorten them up.

“We didn’t really walk out. We kind of mutually broke up.”

Connelly said Insight did not go through the union to notify it of the plan to call back nurses.

“The way to expedite (the issue) is not for them to go off on their own and decide how they’re going to do it,” he said. “The way to expedite it is to sit down and talk with the nurses about how they’re going to do it. And that has not occurred.”

A second union representing employees at Insight Trumbull said its members could return to the East Market Street facility for retraining as early as Wednesday.

“We received notification (Friday) afternoon of the plans to start reopening,” a union official for Service Employees International Union District 1199 said in an email. “We are not yet aware of the departments or numbers of the recall.”

The union representative said it has been difficult to obtain information from Insight leaders.

“(We) are hopeful that as the reopening progresses we can also improve the communication and relationship. We are cautiously optimistic.”

SEIU 1199 has been without a contract since July. The official said Insight will be sending dates and a proposal to start negotiations.

The Ohio Nurses Association, representing Insight Hillside’s health care workers, said management has remained mum regarding the township hospital’s return to service.

“Since our demand for answers in July, the Ohio Nurses Association has received no real information from Insight regarding Hillside Rehabilitation Hospital, aside from vague promises to reopen,” an association spokeswoman wrote Friday in an email. “We are appalled and frustrated — alongside the community — by Insight Health’s continued silence about Hillside’s future.”

Rick Lucas, the association’s president and executive director, said Insight Trumbull’s potential opening “offers a glimmer of hope for the community, but Insight’s silence on Hillside is a glaring omission that cannot be ignored.”

Lucas continued to push for Insight to include the unions to be part of reopening discussions.

“If Insight is serious about reopening Hillside, it must start by acknowledging and involving the very professionals who built its reputation for excellent care,” he said.