The Monsour Medical Center may be closed, but its debt keeps accumulating.
The Jeannette hospital was hit with a tax lien for more than $472,000 because officials failed to pay employee withholding taxes, Social Security and Medicare for 2005.
The lien was filed Thursday with the Westmoreland County prothonotary's office.
The hospital, which struggled financially for two decades, announced plans to close in March after the state Health Department issued a downgraded license that would have barred the facility from performing surgery or administering anesthesia. It also reduced the number of beds it could keep in operation.
Monsour and the state had been arguing for the past two years about violations of regulations that caused the state to revoke the hospital's operating license.
Despite repeated inspections, Monsour was unable to meet standards that would have allowed it a unrestricted license.
When the hospital withdrew from bankruptcy in 2005, it listed debts of more than $5 million, which included unpaid taxes to the IRS and state, and another $472,000 to its employees pension fund.
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