As a state commission on health care facilities wraps up its slate of hearings across the five boroughs, the City Council is planning its own set of forums in a push to keep local hospitals off the chopping block.

The state panel is charged with making recommendations to the governor by December 1 on which of the state’s underused facilities to close, consolidate, or convert. At hearings over the last month, elected officials and community groups, citing economic pressures and local health statistics, have urged the state to keep open facilities in their districts.

“If hospitals and nursing homes are shut down, it will be tantamount to a self-inflicted wound to our borough and our state,” the Bronx president, Adolfo Carrion, said in prepared remarks for a hearing in the borough yesterday. His pleas largely echoed those of the leaders of Brooklyn and Queens earlier this month. The final city hearing is scheduled for tomorrow in Manhattan.

The hearings, held throughout the state by regional subcommittees of the commission, are meant to give each locality an opportunity to make its case. But they have not satisfied the council, which will hold the first of several town hall-style meetings on Monday in the Bronx.

The separate forums are an effort to present a united front to the state commission before it issues its recommendation, officials said, despite the appearance that they would tread the same ground as the hearings held thus far.

“It may be redundant, but this one works better than the other one,” Angel Audiffred, a spokesman for the council’s majority leader, Joel Rivera, said of the council’s approach. Mr. Audiffred likened the strategy to the one used to lobby the state for more education funding, in which council members joined forces at public hearings and in a trip to Albany.