Crozer-Chester Medical Center and Taylor Hospital closed in 2025. This is an independent guide, not affiliated with Crozer Health, Prospect Medical or any hospital.
Crozer-Chester Medical Center · Upland, PA
For six decades, Crozer-Chester was Delaware County's largest hospital and its only trauma center. However, it closed on May 2, 2025. Since then, new owners have bought the campus and plan to bring some care back, but no hospital has reopened.
01 — At a glance
Location
Upland, Pennsylvania, next to the city of Chester
Founded
1963, by merging Chester Hospital (opened 1893) and the J. Lewis Crozer Homeopathic Hospital (opened 1903)
Size
424 licensed beds
Known for
The county's only trauma center (Level II), the Nathan Speare Regional Burn Treatment Center, and residency programs that trained doctors for the region
Last owner
Prospect Medical Holdings, from 2016 until the 2025 bankruptcy
Closed
Emergency department April 30, 2025; hospital May 2, 2025
02 — History
Chester Hospital opened in 1893, and the J. Lewis Crozer Homeopathic Hospital followed in 1903. Then, in 1963, the two merged as Crozer-Chester Medical Center on the Upland campus. Later, in 1990, Crozer-Chester joined Delaware County Memorial Hospital to form the Crozer-Keystone Health System. Over time, the system also grew to include Taylor Hospital in Ridley Park and Springfield Hospital.
On July 1, 2016, the for-profit Prospect Medical Holdings bought Crozer-Keystone. Then, in September 2020, the system took the name Crozer Health. Over the next few years, however, it shut services and hospitals. For example, Springfield stopped inpatient and emergency care in January 2022, and Delaware County Memorial closed the same year.
03 — The closure
In October 2024, Pennsylvania's Attorney General sued Prospect over $457 million in dividends that the company had paid out. That December, a flood and electrical fire forced an ICU evacuation at the hospital (what happened in the Crozer-Chester fires). Then, on January 12, 2025, Prospect filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and a receiver took over Crozer in February. After efforts to keep the hospitals open failed, Delaware County declared a health emergency on April 21, 2025. Finally, Taylor Hospital closed on April 26, Crozer-Chester's emergency department on April 30, and the hospital on May 2, 2025. See the full Crozer closure timeline.
The county lost its only trauma center, a regional burn unit and hundreds of inpatient beds. In addition, about 2,651 Crozer Health employees lost their jobs across the system. Meanwhile, average ambulance transport times in the county rose from 9 minutes in 2018 to 40 minutes in May 2025.
Crozer's residents and fellows moved to Penn Medicine, Main Line Health, Jefferson, Temple and other systems. See where each program went. Meanwhile, patient records went to Morgan Records Management, so request yours before March 2, 2027.
04 — What's next
Chariot Equities and Allaire Health Services buy the campus for $10 million. At first, they aim to find a nonprofit operator within six months and to start services within about two years.
Next, the owners describe a primary care practice within nine months. Then, in two to three years, they plan an inpatient hospital about a tenth the old size.
Then Neumann University announces a primary care partnership with the new owners, who are also studying partnerships with regional academic medical centers.
However, nobody has publicly named a hospital operator. So all of these remain plans, and nothing on the campus is open to patients.
We'll update this page the week anything opens. Until then, see hospitals and ERs open now.
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