(1 day ago) Rep. Mary Jo Daley
HARRISBURG, June 11 – Private-equity health care mismanagement is quickly expanding a health care desert in Southeast Pennsylvania and stressing medical systems across Delaware, Chester, and Montgomery counties, said state Rep. Mary Jo Daley, D-Montgomery. “House lawmakers have been sounding the alarm over failed private-equity management for years, and yet we still see executives and shareholders run off with pay days and bonuses after they close a hospital and leave patients to the wind ,” said Daley, who co-chairs the bicameral Women’s Health Caucus in the General Assembly . “What’s more, the widening deserts in Delaware and Chester counties strain remaining systems here in Montgomery County and all over the region, affecting even more patients’ well-being.” The closures have led to dangerously long ambulance rides and overcrowded emergency rooms in the remaining regional hospitals. "At Lankenau Medical Center and across Main Line Health, we take pride in providing compassionate, high-quality care for everyone who comes through our doors,” Lankenau Medical Center President Katie Galbraith said. “However, it wasn't right that patients had to experience increased wait times at our hospital in 2022 when Delaware County Memorial Hospital closed, and it's not right that patients in need of a trauma center from the Chester area now have to travel to Lankenau or elsewhere Read more