Pennsylvania is becoming an increasingly difficult place to own or operate a hospital.
Of the 22 hospital closures Becker’s reported in 2025, four were in Pennsylvania — more than in any other state.
Los Angeles-based Prospect Medical Holdings shuttered two Crozer Health hospitals in Delaware County, laying off more than 2,600 employees. Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems exited the state after selling its three remaining hospitals. Sharon Regional Medical Center closed in 2024 and returned only after Tenor Health Foundation, a newly formed nonprofit, acquired and reopened it in May 2025.
Last year, more than half of Pennsylvania’s acute-care hospitals were operating at a loss, with a third posting multiyear losses, according to Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council data cited by the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania.