The city has dropped its lawsuit against Providence Hospital in Northeast and its parent company Ascension, according to the Washington Business Journal. A judge in D.C. Superior Court dismissed the suit earlier this month after the D.C. Office of the Attorney General moved to drop it, the outlet reports.

The dismissal appears to mark an end to the city’s fight to keep Providence open as a full-service hospital. Advocates have argued for months that the hospital’s closure further disadvantages residents in the eastern part of the city, who already suffer from a dearth of medical services.

Providence has been planning to shutter its acute-care services since last summer, while keeping outpatient services on site, including primary care and a nursing center. After a backlash from the community and city officials alike, the hospital agreed to keep its emergency room—and some ancillary services—open until April 2019. Even so, the city filed a lawsuit against Providence in mid-December, focusing on a technicality about whether Providence and Ascension had notified the appropriate city agencies of their intent to close the hospital. Later that month, a judge denied an injunction request from the city, which would have immediately stopped Providence from moving to shut down any of its acute care services.

The tides appeared to shift in the city’s tack with Providence and Ascension in 2019. At the start of January, D.C.’s State Health Planning and Development Agency approved Providence’s closure plan on the condition that the hospital would meet several requirements, including proving that the hospital is maintaining patients’ medical records. In late January, Providence moved to include an urgent care center on site as it transitions away from being a full service hospital, according to the Business Journal.

Asked for comment, the D.C. Attorney General’s office provided DCist with a copy of a January 3 court filing asking the court to delay proceedings in the suit “to allow the Parties to resolve the outstanding issues in the litigation.” In the motion, the city mentions the SHPDA’s conditional approval of Providence’s closure plan, and says that “once the conditions are satisfied, the District is hopeful that there will be no need to proceed with the litigation.”

Representatives for Ascension have not responded to a request for comment.

Providence Hospital has long been one of the only full-service hospitals available to residents living on the east side of the city. United Medical Center in Southeast has long been beset by management problems that have sometimes endangered patient health. The city is currently in the middle of hashing out a complicated deal for a new hospital on the St. Elizabeths campus in Southeast to replace UMC, but progress has been relatively slow on that front. Community leaders, nurses, and patients have testified that Providence provides crucial resources to underserved communities.