Imagine a young lawyer in Center City, fresh from knee surgery at Penn Medicine, returning home alone. They don’t have […]
Seth Higgins: House Bill 1460 is the wrong answer to hospital closures
Few events rock a community like a hospital closure. When this happens, residents quickly turn to their elected representatives to […]
Jennifer Garzia: Congress Created 340B to Help the Poor. Now It’s Enriching Hospitals.
I thought I knew what to expect after my third C-section: sleepless nights, endless diapers, and hefty medical bills. I […]
Predatory finance meets magical thinking at Crozer-Chester — and patients lose
A health care desert has emerged in Delaware County. There are currently only two hospitals, Riddle and Mercy Fitzgerald, operating […]
Sen. Cris Dush: Saving our rural hospitals and more — why I support the One Big Beautiful Bill
With five of the seven counties I serve being declared a “maternity care desert,” preserving and expanding rural healthcare access […]
Legislators call for action to stop the next Crozer
(The Center Square) – The closure of Crozer-Chester Hospital in Delaware County has brought new scrutiny onto the role of […]
Rapid response forming for Crozer-Chester employees
(The Center Square) – The Department of Labor and Industry, or L&I, has entered the void being created by the […]
After unsuccessful efforts, Crozer-Chester closing its doors
(The Center Square) – The battle to maintain healthcare access in the heavily burdened city of Chester has ended, for […]
Should the Delco Foundation created by sale of Crozer do more to keep hospitals alive?
When Prospect Medical Holdings, a for-profit Los Angeles-based hospital operator, purchased the Crozer-Keystone Health System in 2016, federal law required […]
Seth Higgins: How northern Pennsylvania is being left behind
Within the last year, several institutions that the communities of northern Pennsylvania depend upon — including healthcare services, a college […]
