Harold Brubaker
Business and Economy Reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer
I cover the business side of health care and many other topics for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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1 day ago |
inquirer.com | Harold Brubaker |Sarah Gantz
The emergency departments at Delaware County’s Crozer-Chester Medical Center and Taylor Hospital stopped accepting patients by ambulance Wednesday morning at 8 a.m., a key step in closing the Delaware County hospitals. Crozer’s owner, Prospect Medical Holdings, received bankruptcy court approval Tuesday to close the hospitals in an area that does not have easily accessible healthcare alternatives for low-income residents of Chester who can’t drive to hospitals in Media, Darby, or Wilmington.
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2 days ago |
inquirer.com | Harold Brubaker
Crozer Health’s Delaware County hospitals will stop receiving patients arriving by ambulance with medical emergencies at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, but walk-ins will still be accepted at its emergency department for the next week under closure procedures approved Tuesday in bankruptcy court.
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3 days ago |
inquirer.com | Harold Brubaker
St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children named MondayJodi Coombs as its interim CEO. Thehospital executive from Missouri is replacing Rob Brooks, who has been in that job since Feb. 2024. Coombs, a neonatal intensive care nurse by training, most recently worked as executive vice president and chief operating officer at Children’s Mercy Kansas City. Her five-year tenure at the 390-bed hospital ended in September. Children’s Mercy is significantly larger than St. Chris.
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3 days ago |
inquirer.com | Harold Brubaker
Crozer Health’s owner,Prospect Medical Holdings, will file notices Monday that it is closing Crozer-Chester Medical Center and Taylor Hospital, the firm that has been managing the Delaware Countyhospitals since February said in a statement. Prospect will “begin the process of winding down Crozer Health and all of its operations,” FTI Consulting said.
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1 week ago |
inquirer.com | Harold Brubaker
St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children has received a $76 million boost this year from a revisedprogram that taxes Philadelphia hospitals and uses the money to increase the government’sMedicaid funding for facilities that disproportionately care forlow-income patients. That cash infusion has helped put St. Chris “in its strongest financial position in years,” the nonprofit said in a statement.
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Penn Medicine is taking over Crozer’s Broomall and Glen Mills offices for $5M, ob/gyn services leaving Crozer-Chester Medical Center https://t.co/ZLhpUklGsw via @phillyinquirer
Prospect demands $9 million for Crozer hospitals, or will start closing them Thursday https://t.co/q8f4VYshOA via @phillyinquirer
Spark Therapeutics is laying off 337 people, more than half its workforce, starting in May https://t.co/RI3guNaCQj via @phillyinquirer