Vibra Specialty Hospital of Portland will close, its CEO said Monday, leaving Oregon without a long-term acute care hospital and 310 workers soon without a job.

The 73-bed East Portland hospital specializes in treating patients going through an extended period of recovery, often after they have been stabilized and discharged from a hospital with an emergency department.

The closure, CEO Michael Kerr said in a phone interview, means that patients with these long-term acute care needs, which are often quite complex, will end up staying in traditional hospitals longer because there is one less place to transfer them.

Kerr said his hospital told staff of the closure Monday, and that it would no longer accept new patients. Its average patient length of stay is 25 days, he said, and the hospi

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