Fighting to prevent a closure at Crozer-Chester Medical Center

Rep. Leanne Krueger February 11, 2025

Feb. 11, 2025

The fight to prevent a closure at Crozer-Chester Medical Center has been a rollercoaster for everyone involved, but most especially for the dedicated nurses, doctors, paramedics and all the other staff who provide patient care in challenging conditions. We finally saw good news last week when the bankruptcy judge signed a motion to put a receiver in charge and to remove control from Prospect Medical Holdings, the California-based hedge fund that has extracted resources from our hospital system to enrich itself.

What happens next is a 30-day window for the receiver to evaluate the financial condition and the needs of the system moving forward. Despite previous announcements from Prospect and Crozer about a sale, the system has not yet been sold and next steps depend on what the receiver finds and future hearings by the bankruptcy judge in Texas. I am cautiously optimistic that we have avoided the disorderly closure that elected officials have been working at all levels to prevent. I am grateful to Gov. Josh Shapiro and Attorney General David Sunday for working in partnership with our Delco delegation of legislators and County Council to get to this point.

In his state budget address last week, Gov. Shapiro called for the legislature to pass bills to prevent private equity firms from devastating our health care system. Last session the PA House passed legislation I co-sponsored that would require advanced notice of proposed hospital and health system sales, mergers and acquisitions to the state attorney general, granting the office stronger oversight to review them carefully with the community’s best interest at the forefront. That bill unfortunately stalled in the Senate.

I’m proud to co-sponsor the legislation again this session and will be fighting hard to get it signed into law this year.

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