Holy Family Hospital is moving to shutter some services at its Haverhill campus, including the emergency department, less than a year after new owners took over the facility during the Steward Health Care collapse.

An attorney for Holy Family Hospital, now owned by Lawrence General Hospital, wrote to health care regulators Thursday signaling that hospital officials want to close several dozen inpatient medical and surgical beds and the emergency department in Haverhill this fall.

Crystal Bloom, an attorney with Husch Blackwell LLP, said the Haverhill campus has 59 inpatient medical and surgical beds but that the current average daily census totals nine patients, who “can be served by the Methuen campus and [Lawrence General Hospital].”

Holy Family Hospital intends to close the Haverhill emergency department and instead operate a satellite emergency facility as a satellite of the Methuen campus, Bloom wrote. It would “offer emergent care services for patients in the same location as the existing ED with minimal disruption to the services currently available to patients.”

Hospital officials also want to make formal the closure of Haverhill’s 10-bed intensive care unit, which Bloom said “has been out of service since January 2024,” when Steward still operated the facility.

The changes will not affect inpatient psychiatric beds at the Haverhill site, which will remain operational.

“As Holy Family Hospital is fully integrating into a new system that includes [Lawrence General Hospital], they are working strategically to invest in and redeploy care and resources in a more thoughtful integrated manner that better meets the needs of its communities,” Bloom wrote.

In the Thursday letter, Bloom said hospital officials intend to submit a formal 90-day notice around June 30 detailing the proposed service closures.

The closure would scale back health care services in the region months after state and hospital officials trumpeted success at saving Holy Family Hospital’s two campuses in Haverhill and Methuen from Steward’s bankruptcy.

State government committed hundreds of millions of dollars to support the transition of former Steward hospitals to new owners.

Operators who want to shutter essential hospital services must submit notice to state regulators. The Department of Public Health is required to hold a public hearing about the potential impacts and determine whether the service eyed for closure is necessary to the area’s health.

If DPH deems the service necessary, regulations call on the hospital to submit a plan for assuring patients will continue to have access. However, the department cannot outright reject a service closure or force a hospital to keep something open.