Tower Health’s Turnaround Hits Snag With Failed Hospital Sale

  • Pennsylvania system closed two out of five hospitals it bought
  • Sale of one shuttered facility fell through last week
Tower Health’s Reading HospitalSource: Tower Health
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Troubled Pennsylvania hospital chain Tower Health is eyeing a turnaround after struggling even before the pandemic hit.

It is essentially undoing the ill-fated 2017 merger that transformed it into a six-hospital system. But its plan hit a snag last week when the sale of its shuttered 171-bed Brandywine Hospital to Penn Medicine fell through.