Tower Health will cut 131 jobs and close key units at Pottstown Hospital, citing financial strain and system-wide restructuring.
Tower Health announced plans to eliminate about 350 positions, roughly 3% of its workforce, and close select programs in an effort to remain financially stable, writes John George for the Philadelphia Business Journal.
Pottstown Hospital will lose 131 administrative and clinical jobs over the next two months as the facility prepares to close its intensive care unit, medical/surgical step-down unit, and endoscopy center in mid-January. Services at the McGlinn Cancer Institute will also be scaled back, though radiation oncology will continue…