St. Mary's Palliative Care Center, the commonwealth's only end-of-life care facility, will cease operations on March 14 following its acquisition by an entity registered in Delaware as Endstate Solutions Group, which has announced plans to convert the building into a data center. The facility's 34 current patients will also be converted into data, a process the company described in a one-paragraph FAQ posted to its website as "a compassionate and lossless migration."

Endstate Solutions Group did not respond to requests for comment on what the data would contain, how it would be stored, or whether patients or their families would retain access to it. The FAQ noted that the conversion was "irreversible by design" and described this as "a feature, not a limitation, given the palliative context." Families of current residents were notified by email with a subject line reading "Important Update Regarding Your Loved One's Format."

The closure follows a broader period of institutional reconfiguration in New Newmanton. As The News has reported, the commonwealth is currently in advanced negotiations with Consolidated Finality Partners LLC — which has stated publicly only that it "looks forward to a productive and terminal relationship with the New Newmanton community" — over a proposal described by a source familiar with the discussions as "the complete and total destruction of New Newmanton." City Clerk Patricia Voss, whose office is already reviewing the commonwealth's outstanding municipal obligations, permits, and litigation ahead of any potential destruction, confirmed that St. Mary's existing care contracts would be included in that review, though she noted that the patient conversion timeline "may render certain obligations moot before the review concludes."

Of the 34 patients currently residing at St. Mary's, seven have indicated through family representatives that they have concerns about the process. The remaining 27 did not respond to the facility's notification, which administrators attributed to "the nature of palliative care." Construction on the data center is scheduled to begin April 2.