Daily News | Local ERs see rise in patients after Delaware County Memorial Hospital closure
Emergency departments closest to the shuttered Delaware County Memorial Hospital have seen patient increases as high 20% since Pennsylvania regulators ordered Crozer Health to close the Upper Darby hospital on Monday morning because of inadequate staffing.
“Our volumes at all of our campuses are up about 20%, including our Paoli campus, so there’s definitely an impact that’s going on right now with,” Jonathan Stallkamp, chief medical officer for Main Line Health, said Friday. Paoli Hospital is too far away to pick up Delaware County Memorial patients, and Riddle, in Media, has seen few patients from the area around Upper Darby, he said.
Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby, about two miles away from Delaware County Memorial, has seen a roughly 20% increase in emergency departmentMary Wascavage, a spokesperson for owner Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic.
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