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Lower Bucks Hospital was founded in 1954 as a community hospital. The hospital was funded by a local grassroots movement. The hospital was funded by a local grassroots movement. In 2012, Prime Healthcare Services , an American private healthcare company, purchased the hospital and currently manages it.
As of July 2018, there were 249 state licensed hospitals and VA hospital facilities in Pennsylvania. 148 of these facilities were non-profit, 86 were for-profit or "investor-owned", and 15 were public hospitals owned by the Federal government, state government, or in one case, the city of Philadelphia. [1]
In 1999, the Aria Health system acquired Delaware Valley Medical Center, which is now called Jefferson Bucks Hospital. It is a 112-bed hospital located in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. [10] Aria Health sought to build a new 229-bed facility in Lower Makefield, Pennsylvania, to replace Bucks County Hospital.
Prime, which owns 44 hospitals and 300 outpatient facilities across 14 states, bought Lower Bucks Hospital in October 2012, not long after the hospital had climbed out of a two-year bankruptcy.
Nurses also want to know if Prime Healthcare wants to sell the Philadelphia area hospitals where they work.
Lower Bucks Hospital has received mixed reviews from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The medical center has a three out of five-star rating from Medicare.gov.
In 2019, Jefferson Frankford Hospital was named one of 18 Philadelphia region hospitals that made Healthgrades' top 250 hospitals for 2019. [7] On July 22, 2019, Jefferson Bucks temporarily lost power due to a storm that left over 9000 residents in Bucks County without power. The hospital relied on a backup source until about 22:00 EST. [8]
Over 300 Bucks County employees will strike Friday over health care benefits, union president Steve Catanese said Thursday. ... The workers took lower raises than normal during the pandemic ...