In collaboration with community partners, Franciscan Health is working to further transform its former Crown Point hospital ...

CROWN POINT — Franciscan Alliance announced Thursday it plans to begin demolition of the former Franciscan Health Crown Point ...

The board of commissioners originally approved the emergency declaration on April 28, following the closing of the Crozer Health System.

Peggy Malone, the head of the Crozer nurses' union, became emotional after a mother showed up at the shuttered Crozer-Chester Medical Center with her baby, who wasn't breathing.

Do not go to that emergency room.” When Crozer-Chester Medical Center and Taylor Hospital were open, 95% of Delaware County’s 576,000 residents were within five miles from a hospital.

She noted that the first hospital Prospect closed was in San Antonio, Texas, in 2019, impacting almost 1,000 employees.

UPLAND, Pa. (WPVI) -- A second major hospital in Delaware County is now closed, leaving doctors, nurses and patients scrambling. Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland ceased operations Friday.

Crozer-Chester’s emergency department closed April 30 prior to the wider 300-bed hospital closure. Crozer Health’s other facility, Ridley Park, Pa.-based Taylor Hospital, closed April 26.

Crozer-Chester is set to fully close on Friday, May 2. Taylor Hospital closed all operations on Friday, April 25, 2025, and then the ER closed on Saturday, April 26, 2025.

The Crozer-Chester Medical Center dates back to the 19th century, opening as the Chester Hospital in 1893 before merging in the 1960s with the J. Lewis Crozer Homeopathic Hospital.

But Kushto fears hospital employees won't be coming to his supermarket much longer. A total of 2,651 Crozer Health employees are set to lose their jobs starting Friday.

The hospital is adding community health workers and encouraging people laid off by Crozer to apply. "We always have contingency plans, staffing plans in place to take care of patients who come ...