Crozer Health, Prospect sued over plan to close Delaware County Memorial Hospital

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The Basis for Delaware County is taking Crozer Well being and its mum or dad firm, Prospect Medical Holdings, to court docket over their plan to close down Delaware County Memorial Hospital.

The nonprofit filed the petition with the Delaware County Court docket of Widespread Pleas on Wednesday with the help of the county. The get together is looking for an emergency injunction to halt the closure.

Crozer Well being, the struggling four-hospital system in Delaware County, has been chopping off very important companies and shutting wards for months. Nevertheless, the state of affairs escalated on Sept. 21 when Crozer introduced that it was closing DCMH inside 60 days because it transitions right into a behavioral well being facility.

“Closing Delaware County Memorial could be catastrophic for our residents which have relied on its companies for generations. And, over 300 high-quality jobs could be misplaced as a result of this swiftly introduced plan, developed with out enter from the County. It’s an unacceptable plan of action by Prospect Crozer, and the County stays dedicated to making sure that the general public well being wants of our residents are a precedence over the monetary issues of a for-profit company,” stated Dr. Monica Taylor, the Delaware County Council Chairperson, in a written assertion.