Upper Darby School District has been able to recover over $175,000 from the sale of items from the shuttered Delaware County Memorial Hospital.
The district purchased the former hospital property in 2025 for $600,000 from the bankrupt Prospect Medical Holdings and has been working to prepare for the demolition of the facility.
At Wednesday’s school board committee meeting, Marvin Lee, director of operations for the district, gave an update about the 265,000-square-foot building that sits on 8 acres.
Lee said the sale of mechanical items, generators, chillers from the former hospital brought in about $175,000. In addition a company will take a CT scanning machine and give the district $20,000.
Lee said that $300,000 in fixtures, plumbing, heating and general maintenance supplies and equipment have been reproposed. Over 40 pieces of furniture including desks, chairs and benches and a podium from the former hospital went to district schools and offices.
A bid was put out for other used furniture, however there were no takers and they were disposed of.
The district expect to be finished removing environmental hazards such as asbestos by mid-November. The business office is working with the architect and engineers on plans for the demolition. No date has been set.
DCMH was closed in 2022, the second domino to fall in the eventual collapsing of Crozer Health by Prospect that ended with the shuttering of Crozer-Chester Medical Center in May 2025. Delaware County is rebounding from that health care-provider disaster and will be for years.
The district originally planned to repurpose the building as a school, but the physical characteristics of the building soon showed that was not realistic.