Hospital system-radiology group partnership ends after 40 years
After more than 40 years working together, Southeast Radiology Limited recently terminated its partnership with Crozer Health in Upland, Pennsylvania.
The four-hospital system was slated to lose radiology services on June 30 following the initial announcement in March. However, after word spread about the separation, the Delaware County organization has now been able to secure a new radiology partner, the Philadelphia Tribune reported June 20.
“There will be no interruption in services,” Crozer CEO Anthony Esposito said, according to the publication, though the organization declined to identify its new imaging group.
Southeast Radiology Limited dates to shortly after World War I when it was founded by Abraham Sharpe, MD, under the name Sharpe Associates. The practice later became Southwest Radiology in 1983, according to its website.
The Philadelphia Tribune could not reach SRL for comment. Its Vein Center at Brinton Lake is reportedly shuttering due to “financial pressures and declining reimbursements compounded by a workforce shortage.” A Crozer spokesperson told the publication that Southeast ceased existing at the end of June. Southeast Radiology employed about 20 physicians and had four locations across the Pennsylvania communities of Glen Mills, Broomall, Upland and Drexel Hill.
Crozer Health has faced its own financial issues, with the system failing to pay its bills and grappling with lawsuits over its decision to close the Delaware County Memorial Hospital.
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Marty Stempniak has covered healthcare since 2012, with his byline appearing in the American Hospital Association's member magazine, Modern Healthcare and McKnight's. Prior to that, he wrote about village government and local business for his hometown newspaper in Oak Park, Illinois. He won a Peter Lisagor and Gold EXCEL awards in 2017 for his coverage of the opioid epidemic.