Berks County-based Tower Health has outlined a number of steps it plans to take in the coming months in an effort to “reshape the health system and establish a clear path forward for decades to come,” WFMZ reports.
Tower Health’s board of directors announced a series of actions that include closing one of its seven hospitals in southeastern Pennsylvania and selling another. Its flagship hospital in Berks County will not be impacted, officials said.
The board said it has signed a non-binding letter of intent with Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic to transfer ownership of Chestnut Hill Hospital in Philadelphia and more than half of its 25 urgent care centers across the region. Read more.