Case study · Healthcare

Sharon RegionalHealth System

A Pennsylvania hospital came back from the dead — new owners, a hard deadline, and a website its last developer had walked away from. We rebuilt it fast, so they could prove they were open for business.

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Rapid relaunchdesign + build on a deadline that didn’t move

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The setup

Sharon Regional has served Sharon, Pennsylvania and Mercer County for more than a century — the county’s only accredited cardiac and stroke center, and its largest employer. After its national for-profit owner went bankrupt, the hospital went dark in early 2025. Ten weeks later, a nonprofit turnaround foundation bought it out of bankruptcy and set out to bring it back.

But reopening a hospital is more than unlocking the doors. The new owners had to show the community, patients, and prospective investors that Sharon Regional was genuinely back and operating. The catch: their previous web developer had vanished, leaving them with no working path to a website. (We can guess why.)

The timeline was brutal and there was no room to miss. They needed a credible web presence — fast — as proof the lights were back on. We stepped in to guide them and get it live.

The challenge

A hospital clawing its way back from closure had to look the part, instantly. The brief was short and urgent.

A site live — fast. Days, not months. The hospital needed a working website as proof of life — for the community and for investors.
Pick up where the last dev bailed. Their previous developer had abandoned the project. We took the wheel cleanly and kept things moving.
Accessible to everyone. Healthcare serves the whole community, so the site had to meet accessibility standards — usable by every patient, on every device.
Fast and dependable. A hospital’s website can’t be slow or flaky. It had to load fast and stay up under real traffic.

The solution

We built it on WordPress — open, proven, and owned by their team. No vendor that could walk away again.

A site up — fast. We designed and developed the new site on an accelerated timeline, so the hospital had a real, credible presence the moment it mattered.
Accessible by design. Structured, navigable, and standards-compliant, so every patient in the community can actually use it.
Performance that holds. Tuned to load fast and stay reliable, even as traffic spiked around the reopening.
A partner who stayed in the chair. We guided a team in the thick of a turnaround through the decisions and brought the site up — without the drama the last one left behind.

The results

Lights back on. Proof went live.

Days

From a stalled, abandoned project to a live website — on the timeline the comeback demanded.

Accessible

Built to accessibility standards, so every patient in the community can use it.

Investor-ready

A credible, working site the new owners could point to — proof the hospital was operating again.

1 comeback

From shuttered to reopened, the website became the public face of a hospital coming back to life.

Proof the lights were back on

When Sharon Regional reopened under new ownership, the website carried the message: services, news, and a clear signal to the community — and to investors — that the hospital was operating again.

Picked up, cleaned up, shipped

We took over a project the last developer had abandoned, guided a team mid-turnaround, and delivered an accessible, fast, dependable site on a deadline that wouldn’t budge.

“We’re just excited we’ve been able to bring health care back to this community.”

Butch EavensonCEO, Sharon Regional Health System

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