Thorn Health Center Heliport

The heliport was closed for operational and economic reasons related to the restructuring of its associated medical facility. The Thorn Health Center, which had been integrated into the ProMedica health system, was downsized from a full-service community hospital with an emergency department to an outpatient clinic (ProMedica Hudson Medical Center). With the closure of the emergency room and the consolidation of inpatient and critical care services to larger regional hospitals in Tecumseh and Adrian, the primary need for a dedicated medical evacuation (medevac) heliport at this location was eliminated.

The site of the former heliport is now an unmarked grass lawn located southwest of the main building of what is now the ProMedica Hudson Medical Center. All aviation infrastructure, including surface markings and any associated lighting, has been removed. The site is no longer registered or usable as a heliport. The adjacent building continues to operate as an outpatient medical clinic, offering services such as primary care, laboratory tests, and imaging.

The Thorn Health Center Heliport was a private-use heliport whose sole function was to support the medical services of the Thorn Hospital. Its operations consisted exclusively of helicopter air ambulance flights. It played a crucial role in providing emergency medical services to the rural community of Hudson and the surrounding areas of Lenawee and Hillsdale counties. The heliport facilitated the rapid transport of critically injured patients from accident scenes to the hospital's emergency room and enabled swift inter-facility transfers of patients requiring a higher level of care to larger, specialized trauma centers in Toledo or Ann Arbor. The identifier 'US-11025' is not an official ICAO code (which start with 'K' in the contiguous US) but is a non-standard identifier used by third-party aviation databases to catalog the facility.

The prospects for reopening the heliport are effectively nonexistent. The closure was a direct result of a long-term strategic decision by the ProMedica health system to consolidate hospital services. For the heliport to become necessary again, ProMedica would have to reverse this strategy and re-establish a full-service emergency department and inpatient care at the Hudson location, which is contrary to current trends in regional healthcare management. There are no known plans or proposals to reopen the heliport.