St Vincent Charity Medical Center Heliport

The heliport's closure was a direct result of the closure of St. Vincent Charity Medical Center's inpatient and emergency medical services. The hospital's parent company, the Sisters of Charity Health System, cited significant financial losses, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and persistent staffing challenges, as the primary reasons for ceasing these operations. With no emergency department or inpatient beds, the need for a medevac heliport was eliminated.

The heliport is permanently closed and inactive. The former hospital site has been repurposed and is now known as the St. Vincent Charity Health Campus. This new entity focuses on providing a range of outpatient services, including behavioral health, addiction medicine, primary care, and urgent care. While the physical helipad structure may still exist on the hospital's roof or grounds, it is no longer certified or used for aviation operations.

The St. Vincent Charity Medical Center Heliport (US-10900) was a private-use facility crucial to the hospital's function as a Level III Trauma Center and a primary provider of psychiatric emergency services in downtown Cleveland. Its main operation was to receive critically ill or injured patients via air ambulance services, such as MetroHealth's Metro Life Flight. The heliport enabled rapid transport from accident scenes or other medical facilities, significantly reducing the time to definitive care for trauma, cardiac, and other time-sensitive emergencies. It was an integral part of the regional emergency medical services (EMS) infrastructure for decades.

There are no plans or prospects for reopening the heliport. The strategic shift from a full-service inpatient hospital to an outpatient health campus is considered a permanent change by the Sisters of Charity Health System. Reopening the heliport would be contingent upon the highly unlikely scenario of re-establishing the hospital's emergency department and inpatient services, for which there is no current consideration or funding.