STATEMENT FROM PASNAP FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 2025
CONTACT: Megan Othersen Gorman / mgorman@pasnap.com / (215) 817-5781
We understand that stakeholders are meeting and discussions are ongoing.
We want to take a moment to reiterate: The heart of the issue is and has always been care for Crozer Health’s Delaware County community.
If Crozer Health shuts its doors, its 190,000-member patient community would be devastated – literally locked out of easily accessible critical and primary care. That means no pediatric care, no colonoscopies, and no emergent care for deathly ill neighbors and family members.
What’s more, the healthcare ecosystem in Delaware County – Pennsylvania’s fifth-largest county – will be damaged, perhaps beyond repair. Already swamped Emergency Departments will be deluged. Frontline healthcare workers will risk their licenses to provide care for too many patients at once.
Crozer-Chester Medical Center and Taylor Hospital must, for the public good, be saved.
Lives are at stake.
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PASNAP, the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals, represents approximately 1,000 frontline caregivers within the Crozer Health System and more than 11,000 frontline nurses and healthcare professionals across Pennsylvania. PASNAP was founded 25 years ago on the belief that critical care patients do better when their caregivers have a strong voice to advocate for their patients and themselves.
