My take: New Crozer CEO faces challenges as ChristianaCare merger looms – Delaware Business Now

My take: New Crozer CEO faces challenges as ChristianaCare merger looms

The merger means of ChristianaCare and Delaware County’s Crozer Well being had been in a quiet part.

Then got here information of Crozer getting a brand new CEO, the third lately. New CEO, Anthony Esposito, in a surprisingly candid interview with the Delco Instances talked in regards to the challenges of “stabilizing”  the Delaware County  well being care system.

Again in February, ChristianaCare and Crozer introduced plan to merge whereas acknowledging that the method may take  time. Crozer is a part of California-based Prospect, a for revenue firm whereas ChristianaCare is a nonprofit.

A merger would make ChristianaCare a large participant in a quickly consolidating Delaware Valley  market that has left Crozer in a tricky spot.

The merger information got here at a time when Crozer was slicing companies and becaming the goal of criticism from Delco public officers and residents who suspected that Prospect was making the modifications to clear the way in which for a smoother  ChristianaCare merger. 

Nonetheless, Esposito stated the cutbacks had been  primarily made in response to an absence of employees, moderately than than different pressures. He did admit that the medical facet of Crozer ought to have been extra concerned within the decision-making course of.

Going ahead, Esposito says he needs to revive companies at Delaware County’s largest and get extra employees in place.

He admits some headwinds are persevering with, together with Covid-19.

In neighboring Delaware, Covid circumstances are sill filling greater than 130 hospital beds. Nationwide, fast-spreading variations of the virus proceed to position strains on an already exhausted workforce that’s nonetheless coping with continual employees shortages that haven’t gone away. – Doug Rainey, chief content material officer.