On Monday night, nearly 250 nurses at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital ratified a three-year contract with Trinity Health, as staffing pressures in light of nearby Delaware County Memorial Hospital’s ...

Toni Fitzgerald is a Pennsylvania-based reporter who has covered the media industry since 2002. She currently focuses her coverage on streaming and book publishing. She also works as a freelance ...

Parent company Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic called the closure a "difficult but necessary decision." Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital, a Delaware County medical center owned and operated by Trinity Health ...

The cuts to behavioral health care at the 178-bed hospital is a major blow to Delaware County and Southwest Philadelphia. File photo: In this July 24, 2014 file photo, an officer walks near the scene ...

“While there is a need for these services in our community, operational and financial challenges make it difficult for us to continue doing so,” Mercy Fitzgerald spokesperson Jason Griffith ...

Delaware County’s access to behavioral health care services just became a bigger problem with Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital’s closing its inpatient psychiatric unit, writes John George for Philadelphia ...

Mercy Fitzgerald closed its behavioral health unit on Oct. 26 “after exhausting all available options,” according to a ...