Healthcare
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Rothman Orthopaedics Relocates South Philadelphia Office to Navy Yard
Rothman Orthopaedics, a nationally renowned leader in orthopedic care for more than 50 years, is expanding its footprint in the region with the opening of a new office at the Navy Yard in South Philadelphia. The new location — 1 Crescent Drive, Suite 401 — will begin seeing patients on June 30. This move reflects…
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Here’s Why the Healthcare Nonprofits Couldn’t Save Crozer Health
A coalition of six area health care systems rallied together for months in an effort to save Crozer Health, but two major roadblocks kept it from happening, writes John George for the Philadelphia Business Journal. What the coalition needed, and couldn’t find, was “backstop” funding to protect the contributing health care systems from taking on…
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Lankenau Medical Center Receives Anonymous Donation to Relieve Nurses’ Student Loan Debt
After years of balancing patient care with the weight of student loan debt, registered nurse Emmy McManus from Wynnewood, finally caught a break, writes Aubrey Whelan for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Thanks to an anonymous $1 million donation made to Lankenau Medical Center, where McManus has worked for 30 years, she’s one of 179 nurses receiving…
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Patients in Delaware County Feeling Effects of Crozer Health Closing
Delaware County had no organ donations in May, writes Kathleen E. Carey for the Daily Times. “Crozer was our biggest individual facility that assisted with those donations,” said Delaware County Medical Examiner Jeffrey Lange, during a department review at the June 18 Delaware County Council meeting. “It was an eye-opener to see that.” It did…
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Newsweek Ranks Doylestown Hospital Among Best in World
Doylestown Hospital has earned a spot on Newsweek’s 2025 World’s Best Hospitals list, a ranking that highlights the top healthcare institutions across 30 countries worldwide, according to a staff report from TAPinto Doylestown. The ranking is compiled using an online survey conducted by Newsweek and Statista, patient experience surveys, hospital quality metrics from various public…
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Swiss Patient Returns to Penn Medicine Following Life-Changing Double Hand Transplant
Luka Krizanac, a patient from Switzerland, recently returned to Philadelphia for a visit to Penn Medicine, the hospital where he underwent a life-changing double hand transplant, writes Stephanie Stahl and Brad Nau for CBS News Philadelphia. For the first time in 17 years thanks to the transplant, Krizanac is able to text on his phone…
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Acclaimed Clinician Named Chief of Cardiac Anesthesia for Nemours Children’s Health in the Delaware Valley
Nemours Children’s Health has named Dr. Mark Twite its Chief of Cardiac Anesthesia and Co-Director of the Nemours Children’s Cardiac Center in the Delaware Valley. In this new role, Dr. Twite will lead the delivery of cardiac anesthesia services with oversight of the region’s cardiac anesthesia program. He will also play a pivotal role in…
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Redeemer Health Says Recovery is Underway Despite Credit Downgrade
Abington’s Redeemer Health just had its credit rating downgraded by Fitch Ratings, a sign that the health system is still under serious financial stress, writes John George for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The drop to a B+ rating means there’s a higher risk that Redeemer might struggle to pay back its debts. The health system…
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Even Before Crozer Closed Other Hospitals Were Getting Busier
The busiest ERs in Delaware County came out of Crozer Health. Now that it’s closed, the county’s two remaining emergency rooms at Main Line Health’s Riddle and Trinity Health’s Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital are seeing many more patients. Riddle Hospital in Media, for example, has seen a 40 percent increase in emergency room patients, writes Sarah…
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Crozer Hospitals Put Up for Sale as Springfield OKs Microhospital
As displaced Crozer Health patients overwhelm emergency rooms at Delaware County’s two remaining hospitals, four other closed hospitals in Delaware County, and their contents, are being sold. Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland, Delaware County Memorial Hospital in Drexel Hill, Taylor Hospital in Ridley Park, and Springfield Hospital in Springfield are all up for sale. A…
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Grand View Health Reports Largest Regional Operating Loss in Past Nine Months
Grand View Health, located in Sellersville, has reported the largest operating loss in the region during the nine-month period that ended March 31, writes Harold Brubaker for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The health system reported revenue of $207 million during that period, resulting in a loss of $53.3 million, or 26 percent. That figure represents both…
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Cardiology Consultants of Philadelphia to Open King of Prussia Surgery Center
Cardiology Consultants of Philadelphia has partnered with Penn Medicine and other providers to open an ambulatory surgery center in King of Prussia, writes Harold Brubaker for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The $10 million facility that has three operating rooms and one procedure room will open late this year and offer same-day, nonemergency treatments. The center will…
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ChristianaCare Wins Bid for 5 Former Crozer Health Locations
The Delaware healthcare nonprofit ChristianaCare announced Wednesday that it was the successful bidder in a highly competitive auction for five former Crozer Health outpatient service locations in Delaware County. ChristianaCare will be taking over programs and services at: • 300 Evergreen Dr., Glen Mills • 500 Evergreen Dr., Glen Mills • 2010 West Chester Pike,…
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Amid Worsening Nursing Shortage, Pennsylvania’s ‘Invisible Workforce’ Delivers Billions in Unpaid Care
As the nursing shortage intensifies nationwide, Pennsylvania’s “invisible workforce” of family caregivers continues to provide billions in unpaid care, writes Isaac Avilucea for AXIOS. According to a new report from researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, family caregivers provided an estimated 32.5 billion dollars in unpaid care in 2024, up from 22…
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Bryn Mawr Hospital Dir. of Nursing Operations Finds Joy in Other Nurses Success
Mary Lance-Smith, director of nursing operations at Bryn Mawr Hospital, keeps a sign in her office that sums up why she chose the profession: “I became a nurse because I was called to do this work,” writes Gina Lizzo for the Main Line Today. Lance-Smith first became interested in nursing as a child, when she…
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CHOP, Penn Doctors Perform World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment on Local Infant
Shortly after being born during the summer of 2024, KJ Muldoon was diagnosed with severe Carbamoyl Phosphate Synthetase 1 deficiency, a rare genetic disorder. While the only effective long-term treatment for the ailment had been a liver transplant, doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Penn Medicine decided to take a different approach with…
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ChesPenn Health Services: ‘We’re Still Here and Committed to Serving Local Communities’
ChesPenn Health Services is a free-standing Community Health Center (CHC) that offers coordinated primary healthcare services — medical, dental, behavioral — for children, teens, and adults. Despite the closure of our partnering hospital, Crozer Keystone Health System, we remain steadfast in our commitment to provide access to primary and preventive healthcare and social services to…
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Temple Health Transforming Chestnut Hill Hospital Two Years After Acquisition
It has been two years since Temple University Health System took over Chestnut Hill Hospital and the efforts has left to a strong turnaround, writes John George for the Philadelphia Business Journal. Temple Hospital CEO Abhi Rastogi noted that when it was acquired, the Northwest Philadelphia hospital was experiencing a failing infrastructure, low volumes, and…
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