Kindred Healthcare Inc., a Louisville, Ky.-based long-term care company that operates hospitals, nursing homes, and rehabilitation centers, will be closing its 45-bed Waltham hospital, the second Massachusetts facility it has shuttered in just over three years.
The company shut its 79-bed hospital in Braintree in fall 2008 after moving its patients to other sites. Kindred at the time also closed a hospital in Modesto, Calif.
Kindred, which still runs hospitals in Boston, Natick, and Peabody, said in a statement that it had notified state officials of its plan to close the Waltham hospital, a process that could take up to 90 days. “This decision has no impact on our other area Kindred hospitals or nursing centers,’’ the statement said.
