{"id":200158,"date":"2026-05-22T20:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200158\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T20:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:55:06","slug":"jefferson-methodist-hospital-in-south-philly-to-reopen-after-power-outage-forced-dayslong-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200158\/","title":{"rendered":"Jefferson Methodist Hospital in South Philly to reopen after power outage forced dayslong closure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jefferson Methodist Hospital will reopen Saturday after a power outage forced patients to evacuate and shut it down for several days earlier this week.<\/p>\n

Operations will resume at 7 a.m., Jefferson Health<\/a> said Friday. The hospital in Lower Moyamensing lost power<\/a> Tuesday evening, and 150 patients had to be moved to other medical facilities with the help of the city’s Office of Emergency management. <\/p>\n

MORE: Jefferson Einstein Hospital nurses protest system’s cuts to pediatric care<\/a><\/p>\n

The Pennsylvania Department of Health authorized the reopening, allowing the hospital to resume “critical operations” over Memorial Day weekend. <\/p>\n

“We are deeply grateful to everyone who contributed to the successful response effort and helped ensure the safety and well-being of our patients,” Jefferson Health CEO Joseph Cacchione said in a statement. “This swift reopening is a testament to the dedication, coordination, and rapid response of hundreds of Jefferson colleagues and partners who worked around-the-clock to maintain our patients’ uninterrupted care.”<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, a Jefferson spokesperson said the cause of the outage was still being investigated, but was likely caused by an external water source. Police Chief Inspector Scott Small told NBC10<\/a> that flooding caused 3 feet of water to collect in the hospital’s basement. The backup generators then failed, leading to the full outage and requiring a patient evacuation. <\/p>\n

Jefferson Methodist has 220 patient beds and a full emergency room, and it specializes in cancer care, emergency medicine and neurology. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jefferson Methodist Hospital will reopen Saturday after a power outage forced patients to evacuate and shut it down…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5724,5725,3806,69,71,70,2138,645],"class_list":["post-200158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-health-news","tag-hospitals","tag-jefferson-health","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-power-outages","tag-south-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}