A document from Crozer Health indicates plans to close the outpatient substance abuse clinic at Delaware County Memorial Hospital on June 10, writes Kenny Cooper for WHYY.

Crozer-Chester Medical Center is also planning to close its Inpatient Acute Substance Abuse and Addiction Unit June 11, and its Crisis Center on June 19, which treats people with behavioral and mental health issues.

The notice from the health system, obtained by WHYY News, came just a day after Delaware County Council passed an emergency ordinance requiring a 180-day or more written notice to the county’s health department if a hospital or hospital unit is being closed.

Crozer Health has already suspended emergency and ancillary services at Springfield Hospital, closed the ICU, a surgery unit, and a maternity ward at DCMH, and closed a hospice ward at Taylor Hospital. 

It is also asking seven Delco municipalities to pay for emergency medical services.

PASNAP, a union representing about 1,2oo nurses and healthcare professionals at the Crozer Health’s Delco hospitals, condemned the closures, stating the move is “swamping a system that is already struggling and imperiling the people of Delaware County.”

Prospect Medical Holdings, owner of Crozer Health since 2016, is hoping to sell the medical group to the nonprofit ChristianaCare.  

Read more at WHYY about Crozer Health.