Staff members mark end of Crozer Health with sendoff

Staff members mark end of Crozer Health with sendoff

There were lots of hugs being given and group selfies being taken in the parking lot across from Crozer-Chester Medical Center Friday as colleagues said goodbye to each other and to the legacy that once was. As of Friday, most services, including the emergency rooms, at Crozer-Chester Medical Center and Taylor Hospital were closed after a Texas bankruptcy judge approved Prospect Medical Holding’s request for an expedited closure of the two Croze…

Crozer-Chester Medical Center officially shuts down

Crozer-Chester Medical Center officially closed at 8 a.m. Friday, marking the end of an era for one of Delaware County’s longstanding healthcare institutions.

Crozer-Chester Medical Center officially closes Friday

The Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Delaware County is officially closing Friday, completing the bankruptcy shutdown of all services at the hospital

Last days of Crozer through eyes of staff, patients

Patients were angry. They were upset. One had to stop driving because she had to vomit. Another said she was simply resigned to die now. “Distress isn’t even a word for how these patients feel and how lost and how angry they feel,” Melanie McKendry, the lead medical assistant in the gynecology oncology department at Crozer-Chester Medical Center, said of the news that these services were going to end this week. “They’re distraught. They’re distr…

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Radnor Township declares emergency over Crozer closure

RADNOR — Believing it could have an impact on emergency services, Radnor’s Board of Commissioners has declared an emergency over the shutdown of the Crozer Health system. The resolution that was passed at its commissioner’s meeting this week said the closure is “a significant public health crisis [that] has emerged in Delaware County due to the reduction of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and the closure of two Delaware County hospitals, a dire…