Healthcare
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Wall Street Journal: Prospect Medical Deal With Crozer Hospital Landlord Put on Hold
A business transaction that was supposed to help the owner of Crozer Health has been put on hold, putting additional strain on Delaware County’s hospitals and healthcare facilities, writes Jonathan Weil for The Wall Street Journal. The deal was between hospital landlord Medical Properties Trust and one of its major tenants, Prospect Medical Holdings, owner…
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4 Crozer Health Hospitals in Delaware County Victims of Ransomware
Four Delaware County hospitals that are part of Crozer Health were affected by a ransomware cyberattack on August 3rd against Crozer owner Prospect Medical Holdings, reports Anie McCormick and the 6abc digital staff. Crozer Health is evaluating how the attack impacted its four hospitals—Crozer-Chester Medical Center, Delaware County Memorial Hospital, Springfield Hospital, and Taylor Hospital.…
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Jefferson Health, Largest Health System in Philadelphia Region, Announces Layoffs
About 400 positions at Jefferson Health will be eliminated this week as part of the health system’s plan to reduce costs by $300 million, writes Harold Brubaker for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The largest health system in the Philadelphia Region announced on Monday that it will be laying off one percent of its employees this week.…
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Lankenau Surgeon a Proponent of Robotic Heart Surgeries Despite Many Critics
The use of robotics for coronary bypass surgeries first began in the late 1990s, but the technique has not caught on everywhere just yet, writes Abraham Gutman for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Francis Sutter, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Lankenau Medical Center in Wynnewood, is a big proponent of using a robot for coronary artery bypass graft…
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Riddle Hospital’s New 5-Story Pavilion Now Officially Open to Patients
Patients began receiving services and care at Riddle Hospital’s new five-story, 230,000 square-foot pavilion Monday, writes John George for Philadelphia Business Journal. The pavilion is a key component of a $327 million campus modernization at the Media hospital. Main Line Health began work on the hospital in 2020. “We are thrilled to arrive at this…
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‘Sky’s the Limit on What You Can Achieve’: Guardian Nurses Healthcare Advocates Launches Speakers Bureau
Pennsylvania is experiencing one of the worst nursing shortages in the nation. That’s not just an HR issue — it’s a public health emergency. To help inspire more students to enter the profession, nurses from Flourtown-based Guardian Nurses Healthcare Advocates have launched a new speakers bureau program, entitled “Light the Way Through a Career in…
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Tower Health Sells Shuttered Brandywine Hospital
A letter of intent has been signed by both Tower Health and Penn Medicine for the purchase of the shuttered Brandywine Hospital in Coatesville, writes Ryan Sharrow for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The 85-acre campus was closed on Jan. 31, 2022 in an effort to relieve Tower Health’s financial struggles as it remains with over…
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Riddle Hospital in Media Doubles Its Size as Modern Addition Opens
A $327 million expansion and modernization project years in the making at Riddle Hospital in Media will have its grand opening June 14, with service beginning July 10, writes Kathleen E. Carey for the Daily Times. The five-story 230,000 square-foot addition gives Riddle 10 modern surgical suites, 76 new patient rooms, and a 174-space parking…
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New Book Recalls ‘America’s First Plague,’ Mosquito-borne Epidemic That Struck Philadelphia in 1790s
A mosquito-borne epidemic that started to spread throughout Philadelphia in the 1790s made the nation’s then-capital totter under its impact, writes Fergus M. Bordewich for The Wall Street Journal. As Robert Watson writes in his new book, America’s First Plague, the outbreak was “one of the worst epidemics in American history.” Within three months, anywhere…
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Paramedic Says Prospect Medical Falling Behind on Ambulance Repairs
Prospect Medical Holdings, owner of Crozer Health, has been unable to pay for repairs to its aging fleet of ambulances, writes Kenny Cooper for WHYY. With Crozer ambulances covering about 70 percent of Delaware County, paramedics, and EMTs say patient care could be affected. Kate Denney, a Crozer EMS paramedic, said the local vendor who…
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Dr. John Gibbon, Heart-Lung Machine Inventor, Was Media Retiree
Dr. John Gibbon, the doctor who performed the world’s first successful open-heart surgery 70 years ago on May 6, 1952, was a retiree at Lynnfield Farm in Media. Dr. Gibbon, who died in 1973, devoted himself to painting and poetry in his retirement, but earlier in his career, he invented the heart-lung machine with his…
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Landlord Gives Financial Relief to Crozer Health With New Rent Deal
Crozer Health in Chester will no longer pay $35 million in annual rent to its landlord for its hospital properties, giving it some financial relief, writes Harold Brubaker for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The restructuring was announced Tuesday by its landlord, Medical Properties Trust Inc. The properties are being given back to Crozer Health’s owner, Prospect…
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New Broomall Clinic Focuses on Children’s Medical Needs
Parents of children coping with serious medical issues can now turn to a new Nemours children’s health clinic that has opened in Broomall, writes Aubrey Whelan for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Nemours Children’s Health has opened a specialized pediatric medical office in Broomall that includes doctors who are experts in 14 medical and surgical specialties, including…
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Nurses, Lawmakers Picket Crozer as Financial Worries Grow
Community members and lawmakers joined picketing nurses outside Crozer-Chester Medical Center Friday amid growing concerns over Crozer Health’s finances, writes Kenny Cooper for WHYY. The four-hospital Crozer Health, owned by the for-profit Prospect Medical Holdings, has struggled to pay bills and laid off 215 workers in March. The picketing nurses say Prospect is allegedly “disrespecting…
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Harcum College Offers Affordable Dental Services, Free Care for Children & Teens
The Abram and Goldie Cohen Dental Center at Harcum College provides a wide range of expert dental hygiene services to the public at affordable prices. The state-of-the-art, 16-chair clinical facility is equipped with radiology rooms, Panorex (a 360-degree dental X-Ray machine), a computer lab, and a classroom. The Cohen Dental Center offers free dental exams…
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Delaware County Leadership: Martha Sharkey, Executive Director, TODAY is a Good Day
Flourtown resident Martha Sharkey, Founder & CEO of TODAY is a Good Day, spoke to DELCO Today about growing up in Lancaster County near farmland, her first job at a museum store that she continued into adulthood, and why she chose to go to Penn State despite her initial reluctance. Sharkey, whose career centered around…
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Crozer Landlord MPT Working to Minimize Impact of Troubled Investment
Crozer Health’s landlord, Medical Properties Trust Inc., known as MPT, is converting its lease on Crozer’s hospital buildings into a first-lien mortgage, writes Harold Brubaker for The Philadelphia Inquirer. “It could conceivably give MPT some protection in the event of a Crozer bankruptcy because MPT would likely have higher seniority to be paid back as…
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Delco State Rep. Introduces Bill to Prep Communities for Hospital Closings
A proposed state bill would give communities six months to prepare should a hospital be closed, writes Peter Hall for Tioga Publishing. Legislation introduced in the state House by Delaware County State Rep. Jennifer O’Mara, Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski, D-Luzerne, and state Sen. Carolyn Comitta, D-Chester would double the required notice of a hospital closure,…
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