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CBS News
02-05-2025
- Health
- CBS News
Crozer-Chester Medical Center closes, marking end of Delaware County's largest hospital system
Crozer-Chester Medical Center closed its doors Friday, marking the end of Delaware County, Pennsylvania's largest health system. Crozer Health served Delco for generations, and its closure has caused sadness and anger in the community. Crozer-Chester, located in Upland, shut its doors at 8 a.m. Friday. Hallways, patient rooms and operating rooms are now empty inside the hospital, as patients are now trying to figure out where to go to get care. The hospital's closure marks the end of Crozer Health in Delaware County. Last week, a federal bankruptcy judge authorized Prospect Medical Holdings' plan to close Crozer Health. Four days after the judge's ruling, Prospect closed Taylor Hospital in Ridley Park on April 26. Now, 10 days after the judge's ruling, the California-based company closed Crozer-Chester. Plans to save Crozer Health failed, leading to about 2,600 layoffs and just two hospitals — Riddle Hospital in Media and Mercy Fitzgerald in Darby — left to serve the county's 585,000 residents. Delaware County's delegation of state lawmakers has asked Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday to open a criminal investigation into Prospect. CBS News Philadelphia Erica Pasquarello, a nurse practitioner at Crozer-Chester, said working for the health system has been part of her family for years. "I've had family that have been in this system for years," Pasquarello said."My pop-pop was a radiologist in '65, my mom was a nurse at Taylor, she's now a nurse practitioner at Brinton Lake. So it's sad, it's sad." Pasquarello will have to find a new job now, but her unemployment is not at the top of her mind. "The patients, I think, if anything, that's the devastating part. Saying goodbye to the last few I have on the schedule today," Pasquarello said. "And I just hope that someone is going to come through and help this community out. Because if anything, they're the ones that are going to suffer the most." With Crozer Health's closure, there's a lot of uncertainty for patients as they search for new health care services. VMSC Emergency Medical Services, a Montgomery County-based company, has agreed to provide ambulance service for parts of Delaware County, including the City of Chester, Springfield, Marcus Hook and Swarthmore. Some Crozer-Chester employees are planning to say goodbye in a farewell tailgate Friday afternoon. Also happening today, Keystone First Wellness and Opportunity Center held an event to help former Crozer patients find new primary care physicians and medical specialists.
Yahoo
06-04-2025
- Yahoo
Injured bald eagle rescued in Baltimore County
An injured bald eagle was rescued in Baltimore County by police with the assistance of a local bird rescue group. A social media post from the Baltimore County Police Department on Sunday said officers in Cockeysville, along with the Department of Natural Resources, responded to a call for an injured animal. Officers then found a bald eagle that Officer Douglas Schupple named 'Schup-Schup.' Police contacted the Owl Moon Raptor Center, which specializes in rescuing and rehabilitating sick, injured or orphaned predatory birds like falcons, eagles, osprey, owls, hawks and more. According to the post, the Owl Moon Raptor Center took possession for the eagle in hope of bringing it back to health. The Montgomery County-based rescue center tended to 713 birds across five species last year, according to its website. Earlier this year, a bald eagle rescued by Harford County Sheriff's Office Animal Control died after being transported to Chadwell Animal Hospital in Abingdon for treatment. That eagle had been found in 'dazed state, likely injured after being struck by a vehicle or colliding with something while chasing prey,' according to a Facebook post from the sheriff's office. Have a news tip? Contact Matt Hubbard at mhubbard@ 443-651-0101 or @mthubb on X.
Yahoo
10-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Review board okays request of two NC charter schools to launch virtual, multi-county programs
Image: Adobe Stock The Charter Schools Review Board on Monday approved remote charter amendment requests for STARS Virtual Academy and Tillery Charter Academy, allowing both to expand their programs under a 2023 state law allowing brick-and-mortar charters to offer remote learning. STARS Virtual Academy, an initiative of Moore County-based STARS Charter serving 884 students across five counties, will use an online platform from the private national company Edmentum along with state-certified teachers, executive director Wesley Graner told the board which unanimously approved the application. Montgomery County-based Tillery Charter Academy, which serves 231 students across seven counties, plans to use its existing curriculum and in-house staff for the remote option, raising concerns from at least one board member who questioned whether the school could handle the additional workload. 'You look at something like that, you wonder, why give permission to spread their resources thinner by adding a whole nother program when the current program, for lack of better word, seems to be struggling or just isn't thriving as of yet,' board member Eric Sanchez said. Despite these concerns, the board ultimately voted 6-3 to approve the application. In other business, the board unanimously approved a request from GO BIG, an all-girls charter school in Charlotte that plans to open in the fall of 2025, to relocate less than five miles and reduce its planned enrollment. The board also unanimously approved a third request from West Triangle High School, also in the 'ready-to-open' process, to delay its opening until Fall 2026. The board also took the following action on a group of requests for charter school renewals that would start July 1, 2025: 10-Year Renewals: Washington Montessori and Doral Academy of North Carolina 3-Year Renewals: Lakeside Charter Academy and United Community School Renewal Vote Delayed: Movement Freedom Charter School.
