Crozer plans to permanently close Delaware County Memorial’s emergency department

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Crozer Well being is planning to completely shut down Delaware County Memorial Hospital’s emergency division, in keeping with inside emails obtained by WHYY Information.

Whereas the constructing will probably stay standing below this choice, the corporate needs to transition DCMH right into a behavioral well being hospital that provides detox and inpatient providers.

DCMH received’t be the one Crozer hospital experiencing an enormous change. Springfield Hospital will turn out to be an ambulatory surgical procedure middle. This arrange normally signifies that a hospital not provides emergency care and conducts solely procedures that don’t require admissions.

Due to Pennsylvania’s hospital rules, Crozer must wait no less than 90 days to truly make these modifications. The healthcare system may have to attend so long as 180 days below a lately handed Delaware County ordinance.

Crozer’s plan will probably strip the four-hospital system in Delaware County of two of its emergency care facilities. That can depart 5 emergency care facilities within the county of greater than 573,000 residents.

Springfield will start serving as an outpatient facility by the top of 2022. DCMH will start serving as a behavioral well being hospital by spring of 2023. All different providers at DCMH might be discontinued inside 60 days because it begins the transformation.