Healthcare
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Alzheimer’s and Dementia Caregivers Face Significant Challenges
The burden of Alzheimer’s and other dementias weighs heavily on family caregivers in Pennsylvania and across the country, according to the Alzheimer’s Association 2024 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures report. Last year, 465,000 dementia family caregivers in Pennsylvania provided 822 million hours of unpaid care valued at $13 billion. Dementia caregivers in the Commonwealth also…
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Court Orders Prospect Medical to Set Aside Rent, Tax Money for Springfield Site
Prospect Medical Holdings, owners of Crozer Health, has been ordered to put $20 million in escrow for three years of rent and taxes for medical buildings Crozer is leasing in Springfield, writes John George for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The order came from a Delaware County judge handling a dispute between Prospect Medical and The…
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Norristown-based Gaudenzia, a Leading Substance Use Disorder Treatment Provider, Names First Woman CEO
Deja Gilbert, PhD, has been named the new president and chief executive officer of Norristown-based Gaudenzia, making her the first woman to hold that role in the organization’s 55-year history. Gilbert is a change leader and veteran executive in the treatment of substance use disorder. She will run one of the largest nonprofit providers of…
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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Receives $6.4 Million Gift from Bucks County Family
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has received a $6.4 million gift from the family of Connor Boyle, a Central Bucks East High School graduate who died at age 18 from osteosarcoma. This three-year gift, named “The Connor Initiative: Precision Therapeutics for Osteosarcoma & Rare Cancers,” will support cutting-edge research in osteosarcoma and other rare cancers.…
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Main Line Health Joins Regional Child Gun Safety Campaign
Firearms remain the leading cause of injury and death for children. An average of 13 children die from guns every day. With that in mind, Main Line Health is joining the nation’s largest regional collaboration of health systems to kick off a year-long public service campaign on child gun safety, encouraging a community approach to…
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Crozer Health Plans Micro-Hospital on Springfield Hospital Campus
Crozer Health plans to turn the closed Springfield Hospital emergency department and medical center into a micro-hospital, writes John George for Philadelphia Business Journal. The hospital on Sproul Road is licensed for 38 beds, but for the last two years, it has been used only for outpatient care. The plan calls for a 10-bed inpatient…
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Mike Flanagan Named SVP of Business Development at ETHOS Treatment to Support Ongoing Rapid Growth
ETHOS Treatment LLC — which has experienced rapid expansion in the past few years, having grown to seven locations, telehealth services, and more than 40 counselors — has named Mike Flanagan Senior Vice President of Business Development. Flanagan will continue to drive ETHOS’s growth as the company executes plans to expand into new markets throughout…
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David M. Capuzzi Remembered as a Medical Research Pioneer
David Capuzzi, of Wayne, known for pioneering cholesterol research, creating training programs for cardiologists, and internships for high school students in his lab, died Feb. 15 at 85. Dr. David M. Capuzzi, a physician and a retired professor of medicine and biochemistry, championed continuing education for doctors and healthcare providers while participating in public wellness…
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Crozer Health Gets Pediatric Help From Nemours Children’s Health
The nonprofit Nemours Children’s Health is now an affiliate of Crozer Health, providing pediatric care for the healthcare group, writes Harold Brubaker for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Nemours, with hospitals in Wilmington and Orlando, began staffing the neonatal intensive care unit at Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland this January and is starting pediatric cardiology services at…
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DCMH Closure Overwhelming Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital Staff With Patient Overload
There are 20 to 40 more people a day visiting Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital’s emergency room since Delaware County Memorial Hospital closed on Nov. 4, 2022, writes Kathleen E. Carey for the Daily Times. The nonprofit hospital is closest to DCMH, down the street on Lansdowne Avenue in Darby. On average, the understaffed hospital sees 120…
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Wilmington University Student Prepares Move to Educator Position at ChristianaCare Gene Editing Institute
Sarah LaTorre, a 24-year-old Wilmington University student, is preparing to move directly into a full-time educator position at ChristianaCare’s Gene Editing Institute after graduation in May with a Bachelor of Science in Biology, writes Maddy Lauria for the Delaware Business Times. LaTorre is currently interning at the institute where a diverse group of scientific and…
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Elwyn’s $1 Billion Merger with Merakey Falls Through
In 2023, Lafayette Hill’s Merakey had announced a merger with Elwyn, a Delaware County nonprofit, but according to Behavioral Health News, the agreement is now off, writes Kevin Tierney for More Than The Curve. Both non-profits serve those with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The merger would have created a new $1 billion organization of 12,000…
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Jefferson Health Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery is Leaving for Smaller Local Health System
Rohinton Morris, M.D., chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Jefferson Health is heading to Tower Health to serve as the chief there, writes John George for Philadelphia Business Journal. Tower Health is based in Berks County and oversees Pottstown Hospital. On why he is making the move, Morris said that he has grown frustrated with the…
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Montgomery County’s First Micro-Hospital Will Change the Healthcare Landscape
Micro-hospitals are a growing trend in healthcare to reach more patients right in their communities, writes Harold Brubaker for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Montgomery County will soon have one of the 10-bed hospitals with small emergency departments in Gilbertsville. Micro-hospitals also referred to as neighborhood hospitals are designed to reach patients in areas that can’t accommodate…
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ETHOS Treatment Launches Eating Disorder Program to Help Adults Cultivate Healthier Relationships with Food
ETHOS Treatment LLC — which helps adults and teens with mental health issues and substance use disorders through a proven combination of individual counseling and small-group and family therapy — has launched an eating disorder program to help patients cultivate healthy relationships with themselves, their food choices, and their body image. ETHOS treats diagnoses that…
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Edith P. Mitchell of Newtown Square, Was a Healthcare Trailblazer
Dr. Edith P Mitchell of Newtown Square, who transformed care for disadvantaged patients at Thomas Jefferson University and elsewhere, is also the first woman physician to become a brigadier general in the Air Force, writes Gary Miles for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The civil rights pioneer died Jan. 21 at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby. Dr. Mitchell…
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Surgical Residents Fleeing Crozer Chester Medical Center Over Accreditation Worries
There has been an exodus of surgery residents from Crozer Chester Medical Center over accreditation uncertainties, writes Harold Brubaker for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Nine of 15 doctors in training planned to leave the general surgery residency program as of Wednesday, concerned their work from January through June won’t count toward their educational requirements if a…
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Prospect Medical Ordered to Put Crozer Health Up for Sale by Feb. 21
Prospect Medical Holdings has 20 days, or until Feb. 21, to list Crozer Health for sale to a nonprofit, according to an agreement between the Pennsylvania Attorney General and Prospect, writes Harold Brubaker for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The agreement was approved Thursday by Court of Common Pleas Judge Cheryl L. Austin. That means Prospect Medical…
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