POTTSTOWN PA – Nurses and healthcare workers at Pottstown Hospital are scheduled to demonstrate their concern Monday morning (Nov. 17, 2025) for what their representatives call “alarming service cuts and massive layoffs” announced Nov. 7 by hospital owner Tower Health.
Hospital employees, designates of several Pottstown community organizations, and politicians and public officials are expected to gather at 9 a.m. for a “press conference” at the corner of High Street and Armand Hammer Boulevard. They are encouraging the public to also attend.
Tower Health, in an e-mail, notified employees of its plans to lay off 350 workers (about 3% of the health system’s 11,000-person staff, according to the Philadelphia Business Journal) due to financial pressures. Of those, the greatest number of job losses – 131 administrative and clinical positions – would occur at Pottstown…