Crozer Health closure: Nurses, doctors, workers rally to keep their jobs after closure announcement
- Health professionals and officials decried Crozer Health's expedited closure Tuesday at Crozer-Chester Medical Center.
- Parent company Prospect Medical Holdings, a California firm, pursues the closure after purchasing the system nine years ago.
- Speakers claimed Prospect tanked previous sale deals and burdened Crozer with leaseback deals on its buildings.
- ER Doctor Max Cooper warned a patient saved that morning "would have died in the ambulance" going elsewhere.
- The closure impacts almost 3,000 employees, eliminates the region's only trauma center, and risks lives due to distance for care.
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Crozer ordered to cease most services, divert ER patients as shutdown looms
A Texas-based bankruptcy judge has approved a shutdown timeline for Crozer Heath properties as both Crozer-Chester and Taylor Hospital stopped accepting patients into their emergency rooms on Wednesday.
‘Where do they go?’: Crozer health providers worry about patients as closure of Delco hospitals nears
Tears of anger and devastation, desperate pleas for a “hail mary” and a public stand by health care and emergency medical workers Tuesday afternoon were not enough to save Crozer Health hospitals from doom as closure plans proceeded forward.

Health care workers, officials warn: Longer rides will mean more death
People are going to die because of corporate greed. That was the main takeaway from speakers at a press conference Tuesday afternoon outside Crozer-Chester Medial Center, where health care professionals and elected officials decried the expedited closure of Crozer Health by its for-profit California-based parent company, Prospect Medical Holdings. ER Doctor Max Cooper said one person was saved just Tuesday morning who would have died going anywh…
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