In Re Sheehan Memorial Hospital

CARL L. BUCKI, Bankruptcy Judge.

Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation has moved to dismiss or convert the chapter 11 case of Sheehan Memorial Hospital (“Sheehan”). For the reasons stated herein, this court will deny the request for conversion to chapter 7, but is compelled to dismiss the case.

Sheehan is a not-for-profit corporation that owns and operates a health care facility in the City of Buffalo, New York. With 109 beds, the hospital has provided acute care and emergency and outpatient clinic services. In delivering these needed services, however, Sheehan incurred significant financial losses.…