Crozer Health’s recent decisions to close services and operations at two of its hospitals are triggering information protest rallies Wednesday and May 11.

The first was outside Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland.

The May 11 rally is 11 a.m. at Delaware County Memorial Hospital, writes John George for Philadelphia Business Journal.

The rallies were organized by PASNAP, representing 1,400 nurses and health care professionals at Crozer Health facilities.

Crozer Health, owned by for-profit Prospect Medical Holdings, has implemented the cuts while completing a proposed sale of its four Delaware county medical centers to ChristianaCare.

Crozer cuts include:

• Emergency department services at Springfield Hospital
•  the obstetrics unit, outpatient services at Delaware County Memorial Hospital;
• Suspended substance abuse treatment programs at Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland;
• Curtail advanced life support response vehicle emergency medical service.
• Suspend surgery and the ICU at Delaware County Memorial Hospital by May 31;
• Close outpatient mental health and substance use disorder treatment services at its Community Campus by June 19.

Crozer Health says it is a necessary response to the economic challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Union officials accuse Crozer of “stripping away” critical services, swamping a medical system with patients now forced to get help elsewhere.

Read more at Philadelphia Business Journal about health worker protests.