The University of Pennsylvania Health System has hired 43 physicians-in-training who were displaced after the Crozer Health shutdown, writes Harold Brubaker for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The residents will continue providing care in Springfield and Upper Darby but will now receive inpatient training at Chester County Hospital.
To make it happen, Penn Medicine has moved up a recruiting program for family medicine resident physicians at Chester County Hospital by a year.
“It’s a lot of work to do it so quickly, but we‘re pretty nimble,” said Karen Pinsky, a pediatrician who was recently appointed president of the West Chester hospital that Penn owns.
Penn hopes to increase the supply of primary care doctors in communities served by Chester County Hospital while preventing care gaps in parts of Delaware County by including Crozer residents.
Crozer’s residents provide care at the Springfield Center for Family Health and at ChesPenn’s Center for Family Health at Upper Darby.
The Springfield site has 15,000 patients annually, while the Upper Darby site treats 9,000 mostly lower-income patients a year.
Penn is also hiring all 12 of the Crozer family medicine physicians at Springfield.
Other area health systems are also taking on Crozer residents.
Find out more about the distribution of Crozer physicians in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
