Sarah Gantz

1 week ago | inquirer.com | Sarah Gantz

Delaware County’s new healthcare challenge could look like an expectant mother, who had a single prenatal visit at Crozer-Chester Medical Center, is due in two months, and isn’t sure where she can go for care that’s reachable by bus. Or an elderly man who needs a new cardiologist, and his son isn’t sure who to call, now that the Crozer health system the family relied on for care is closing.

1 week ago | inquirer.com | Sarah Gantz |Lizzie Mulvey

Eight Philadelphia-area hospitals owned by Jefferson Health and Virtua Health improved their ratings in the latest report card from a leading hospital safety watchdog. Leapfrog releases safety ratings for some 3,000 hospitals nationally twice a year. The nonprofit grades hospitals on 22 safety metrics, such as infection rates and preventable errors, that are reported by the hospitals to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

2 weeks ago | inquirer.com | Sarah Gantz

A Philadelphia-based software startup company wants to modernize how pathology test results are analyzed by replacing slides that are currently viewed under a microscope with highly detailed computer images scanned for irregularities by artificial intelligence. Proscia, headquartered in Center City, recently raised $50 million to advance its AI software program, called Concentriq.

2 weeks ago | inquirer.com | Sarah Gantz

Bryn Mawr Hospital was not cited by the Pennsylvania Department of Health for any safety violations between May 2024 and February 2025. The Montgomery County hospital is part of Main Line Health. Here’s a look at the publicly available details:May 20: Inspectors conducted a monitoring survey to review a virtual nurse support program and a surgical robot and found the hospital was in compliance.

2 weeks ago | inquirer.com | Sarah Gantz

Penn physicists involved in one of the largest international particle physics experiments have received the prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their research of an elusive particle that plays a key role in modern physics theories. The award was shared by some 13,000 researchers in 70 countries who collaborated on particle physics experiments at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, called CERN, in Switzerland.