Upland, Pennsylvania (WPVI) – Crozer Health will close after months of audiences and proposals to save the besieged company.
This means that Crozer-Chester Medical Center at Upland and Taylor Hospital of Ridley Park could close in a few weeks.
The calendar was revealed in a bankruptcy file by the owner of Crozer Health, Prospect Medical Holdings.
Crozer Health To Ferm Down, and operations could stop by early May
The closure would leave patients to travel more for treatment and thousands of employees.
The closure occurs despite the fact that millions of dollars have been injected into the hospital system to keep it open.
“How does it make sense? It seems that there is money to bail out the airlines and the automotive industries and the Septa, but there is no money to save this hospital for this community?” said the president of the Crozer Nurses Association Peggy Malone.
Crozer Health plans to start diverting certain patients on Wednesday, and the system could be closed on May 2.
The calendar indicates the managers who fought to keep hospitals open.
“They go ahead with an accelerated closure, a closure faster than the regulations allow it,” said representative Leanne Kruger (D – Pa. 161st district)
“They must be held responsible,” Krueger continued. “The former owners have extracted hundreds of millions of dollars, and this bankruptcy judge must keep them responsible.”
This decision will have an impact up to 3,000 workers in the two hospitals, including nearly 400 authorized nurses, according to the president of the nursing union, Peggy Malone.
“We are always going to have the multiple trauma, the violence we have to Chester and at the Highlands. You know, the victims of stroke and the victims of heart attack will now make 30 minutes to get care, people die at that time,” said Malone.
Crozer Health Close Timeline
The prospect described the closure schedule in a file of the bankruptcy court on Monday:
First steps:
-Filation of the closure plan with the appropriate regulatory authorities.
-Dediver Warn the notifications of the law to all the employees involved in Crozer Health and the related unions.
-Collaborate with nearby health systems to develop transfer plans for patients with exit dates after 4/25
-Phest all patients to cancel all ambulatory meetings after 4/25
From Wednesday, April 23, 2025
– Department of Emergency to go away – All patients will be treated and released or treated and transferred
-Post closing notice to all entries.
-Ceration of elective hospital admissions.
-Comber of trauma, surgical, obstetrics and gynecology, burn, behavioral health, oncology and ambulatory services.
From Monday April 28, 2025
-Close all ambulatory services (ambulatory services will remain open according to personnel needs and planning until this hour).
In progress:
-The patient rejection patients in the ordinary course, identify the appropriate alternative locations for all patients who will need continuous care and organize a transfer.
-Participat in all the required public hearings.
Upon closing emergencies:
-Put an application to Mac to voluntarily end the registration in Medicare.
Plan employees
-The debtors intend to provide the laws on law to all non -unionized employees of closing hospitals and, with regard to unionized employees, debtors intend to provide opinions on each of the representatives of the unions concerned, contemporary at the filing of this motion.
-Cisting to all unionized employees of Pennsylvania hospitals, debtors intend to provide an appropriate opinion and to engage in the negotiation of effects with the unions relevant at the request of this union, as well as to discuss the closure plans with these unions.
Plan the transfer / release of patients
-The majority of patients currently admitted will be released in the ordinary course and, if necessary, information and assistance to make follow-up meetings with replacement providers.
-The patients will be informed of the planned closure and will be transferred, as well as their medical information, in a hospital in the region or a hospital of their choice.
-The debtors will finish the transfer or exit of patients in active care before closing.
Plan the transfer and storage of medical records
-The debtors intend to contract with a medical record guard to ensure that the files are properly stored and patients can access their medical records after closing.
-The debtors will send a written notification on how to locate patients’ files to all practitioners currently on active staff of respective hospitals.
-The transfer and release of all patients should be carried out in a way that ensures the protection of health, privacy and patient safety.
Plan the provision of personal goods, including pharmaceuticals, dangerous materials and medical waste
-The debtors will manage and eliminate pharmaceuticals, dangerous materials and medical waste in accordance with state and federal directives.
-The medications, radioactive materials, chemicals, medical waste, infectious materials and other dangerous materials will be identified, secure and inventoried, then destroyed, eliminated, returned to sellers or transferred to other suppliers, if necessary.
-Low hospital hired the sellers to manage the elimination of medical waste and infectious materials. After the termination of services, debtors will also keep an external supplier to decontaminate hot rooms.
You can read the Full prospect deposit here.
“Devastating and shameful”
The Delaware County legislative delegation published a declaration saying: partly:
“Prospect’s decision to go ahead with the closure of Thecrozer’s health system is a devastating and shameful blow for our communities, our health workers and all the patients who have ever relied on our local hospital system.”
We saw employees and community members left in tears on Monday.
Among them was Dejauna Leath, who beat colon cancer here 10 years ago. She cannot believe that the hospital will close for good its doors.
“It’s just crazy to know that we are not going to have this hospital,” she said.
Earlier this month, Pennsylvania University donated $ 5 million and Delaware County donated $ 1 million to temporarily keep the open health network.
Prospect said the money would help finance operations for seven to 10 days, while the work continued to find a solution, the company of the bankruptcy.
A few days later, Tony Esposito announced his resignation as CEO after having served for more than five years as head of the health network.
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