Despite the offer of a $2 million lifeline to keep southern Tasmania's only private mental health hospital open, last-minute wobbles could yet scupper the rescue bid, as the clinic's shareholders prepare to meet on Monday.

The Hobart Clinic is today discharging the last of its three remaining inpatients, in line with a stated plan to close the 27-bed facility at Rokeby by the end of the week.

On Tuesday, State Health Minister Bridget Archer offered $2 million in one-off "transitional" funding to keep the clinic open another six months and allow the proponents of a clinician-led rescue bid to develop a new business model to make the facility sustainable without further public funding.

The rescue bid, led by former clinical director Hannah Lake, and supported by health union HACSU and t

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