The Fall of Crozer Health
Highlight Reel for Scripps Howard Awards Judges Only
A Special Limited Podcast Series
(For the full series go to The Fall of Crozer Health)
In over 40 interviews with Crozer physicians, nurses, paramedics, medical assistants, and county and state legislators, we captured the stories, emotions, and impact – in real time – of a hospital system in Delaware County, PA as its doors were closing.
Crozer Health was Delaware County’s largest hospital system. Its fall was financially engineered over nearly a decade – a predictable page out of the private equity playbook. This tragedy will echo for years.
This 30min. highlight reel pulls clips from the original five-part podcast series that aired each week in May 2025 (original series run time is 3.5 hours), and the follow up episode, “The Fall of Crozer Health: Eight Months Later” which dropped in December 2025.
Highlight reel time codes:
00:00 - 06:53: From Part 1, “Today is Not Good” (May 1, 2025)
06:56 - 21:25: From Part 2, "It Was Surreal" (May 8, 2025)
21:28 - 44:48: From Part 3, "Betrayal. Plain and Simple." (May 15, 2025)
44:51 - 58:05: From Part 6, “Eight Months Later” (Dec. 22, 2025)
In addition to the five trauma physicians, two paramedics, four medical assistants, ER nurse, and behavioral health nurse heard in this highlight reel - all Crozer Health employees who wished to remain anonymous - additional voices in this reel include:
Brendan Ballou, Author, Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America
Michelle Henry, State Inspector General, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Tim Kearney, State Senator, 26th District, PA
Leanne Krueger, House Representative 161st District, Delaware County, PA, Crozer-Chester Medical Center Updates
Ryan Mascio, MD, President, Delaware County Medical Society
Stefan Roots, Mayor of Chester, PA
Lora Werner, Director, Delaware County Public Health Department
Paul Hughes, Director, Delaware County Historical Society
Frances Sheehan, Executive Director, Foundation for Delaware County
Moe Tkacik, Senior Fellow, American Economic Liberties Project
Praise for the Series:
“The entire series is a masterclass in melding the facts, the voices and stories of those impacted, and how each and every one of us can (and must) get involved in some way.” Priya Mammen, MD, MPH
“This podcast series will continue to keep the spotlight on private equity in healthcare and the deleterious effects it will have for our physicians and patients across the state of Pennsylvania” Delaware County Medical Society
“Thanks Wendy Dean, MD and Matthew Ramsey for shining a light on this grave threat to healthcare and showing us the harms caused by putting profits before patients.” Dan Pomerantz, MD, MPH, MACP
“While dissecting the private equity playbook, Drs. Dean and Ramsey sound the alarm in healthcare and offer solutions on how to prevent this from ever happening again.” Ryan Mascio, DO, FAAP