Pennsylvania officials are working to preserve healthcare services at Crozer Health, a vital provider in Delaware County, after its for-profit owner, Prospect Medical Holdings, filed for bankruptcy. The Shapiro administration and the attorney general's office aim to facilitate the sale of Crozer to a nonprofit to ensure continued access to care for residents, particularly in low-income areas.
The Shapiro administration and the new Pennsylvania attorney are still trying to get Delaware County 's Crozer Health back under nonprofit ownership to preserve services and jobs.
Yet Crozer had one of the region’s lowest rates of people being admitted to the hospital from the ED. Typically that means people are using the ED as a primary care office because they don’t have other easily accessible choices. Mark Victor, a cardiologist whose Cardiology Consultants of Philadelphia has had an office at Crozer for 40 years, worries that many of the most vulnerable residents of Chester would have difficulty getting to more distant“On behalf of our patients, we’re really hoping that there is an 11th-hour solution,” he said.The bankruptcy has not altered the Shapiro administration’s goal of preserving access to care in Chester and nearby communities by facilitating the sale of Crozer to a nonprofit.
other local health systems. That time would also be used to figure out what services are essential for Chester and other nearby communities that depend on Crozer. Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council, which manages a database of billing information submitted by hospitals.due to the departure last year of a private physician group that had been there since 2018. State data for 2024 are not yetThe biggest gainers in Crozer’s core market were Main Line Health facilities. Riddle Hospital’s share increased to 28% from 20%. Lankenau Medical Center’s share jumped to more than 8% from about 4.6%.
Converting Crozer to a nonprofit wouldn’t automatically solve its financial problems. Most nonprofit health systems in the Philadelphia region have been losing money since COVID-19, due to increases in labor and other costs.
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