{"id":226964,"date":"2026-06-24T16:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/226964\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T16:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:16:07","slug":"one-pennsylvania-holds-health-care-rally-outside-former-ccmc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/226964\/","title":{"rendered":"One Pennsylvania holds health care rally outside former CCMC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dozens of residents of Chester rallied Tuesday evening near the former Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland, demanding accessible, affordable health care for people of the city and the rest of Delaware County.<\/p>\n

A news release continues:<\/p>\n

Rally attendees called on the facility\u2019s new owner, Chariot Allaire, to make a long-term commitment to the community and on the Delaware County Council to implement accountability measures on Chariot, as well as other potential incoming owners.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happened to Crozer is a growing trend in healthcare right now. Hospitals are being bought and sold, moved around like assets and capital,\u201d said Dawn Pierce, a Chester resident and member of One Pennsylvania, which organized the rally. \u201cOur health care systems are being turned into a business, when it should be treated as a service. A human right.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause of private owners, Delaware County is now a health care desert.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prospect Medical Holdings, a California-based for-profit entity, bought then-Crozer Keystone in 2016, and slowly over this decade closed the four Crozer Health hospitals and doctors\u2019 outpatient offices. The final closure was in May 2025 with Crozer-Chester Medical Center.<\/p>\n

In April, Chariot Allaire outlined its goals for the campus and hospital, saying some of it could come to fruition in 2026.<\/a><\/p>\n

The rally was the latest action by One Pennsylvania\u2019s Chester chapter in its campaign to alter the trajectory of the healthcare system in the county.<\/p>\n

The organization has been circulating\u00a0a petition titled \u201cOur Healthcare is Not for Sale\u201d\u00a0that demands greater community control of local health systems, transparency by facility owners, and binding commitments by owners to the region.<\/p>\n

Residents are urging Chariot to make a multi-year commitment to stay, open 24\/7 emergency care and a trauma center, and establish in-person facilities for patients to access specialty care and their medical records.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to know what their plan is for providing this for the community,\u201d said Linda Matthews of One PA and a Chester resident. \u201cWe will continue to push them to provide adequate services. We aren\u2019t asking them to break the bank for us. But we are asking for clear plans. We are asking them to make as many services available as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

One Pennsylvania is also calling on Delaware County Council to strengthen legal accountability for all health providers in the county. The campaign is urging passage of legislation to increase notice requirements before the sale of a health care facility, requiring owners to publicly release their expenditures, empowering the district attorney with greater oversight of for-profit owners, and ending for-profit ownership of health care systems in the county.<\/p>\n

In January, Chariot Equities and partner Allaire Health Services finalized the purchase of the facility for $10 million. Prospect Medical Holdings Inc. had put it up for sale in June after closing it in May<\/p>\n

After closing Springfield Hospital and Delaware County Memorial Hospital years earlier, Prospect Medical Holdings closed Crozer-Chester Medical Center and Taylor Hospital last year\u00a0after filing for bankruptcy in January 2025. New owners have since purchased all of these facilities.<\/p>\n

The former medical facility at 1 Medical Center Blvd. in Upland once housed a\u00a0283-bed hospital, multiple medical office buildings and specialized care centers on a 64-acre campus with two parking garages totaling nearly 480,000 square feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of residents of Chester rallied Tuesday evening near the former Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland, demanding accessible,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[212,182,139,28,30,29,210,51536],"class_list":["post-226964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-delaware-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-top-stories-dtd","tag-upland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226964","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=226964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}