Three-hour loss of service at Taylor, Chester Crozer

Emergency room services were suspended for three hours Tuesday at Taylor Hospital in Ridley Park and Chester Crozer Medical Center in Upland.

The ERs were closed around 11 a.m. as a result of malfunctions with radiology equipment, according to Becker’s Hospital Review. Service was restored around 2 p.m. Delaware County emergency dispatchers instructed ambulances to bypass those two hospitals in favor of other sites.

Both hospitals are operated by the Crozer Health System, which is owned by California-based Prospect Medical Holdings Inc. The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office sued Prospect in October, alleging years of “mismanagement and neglect of Delaware County-based Crozer Health System, which has resulted in closures of facilities and shattered a network of care for hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians.”

According to an Oct. 29 statement from the Attorney General’s Office, the lawsuit claims Prospect Medical had broken an agreement approved by a court in 2016, by cutting services and closing facilities, while diverting funds to private shareholders and investors, rather than supporting the healthcare network.