Prospect Medical Holdings edged closer Thursday to closing Delaware County’s Crozer-Chester Medical Center and Taylor Hospital. The California for-profit owner of the health system told a bankruptcy judge in Texas that it planned to file a motion to close the hospitals in the Chester area and Ridley Park because it only has money to keep them open through March 14.

Pennsylvania hospitals owned by Prospect Medical Holdings will need to be closed unless a funding deal can be made within the next week, the bankrupt for-profit system told a judge Thursday. | Bankrupt Prospect Medical Holdings told a judge this week that short- and long-term deals to support Pennsylvania's Crozer-Chester Medical Center and Taylor Hospital have fallen apart.

Lawyers for Prospect Medical Holdings warned in court of the possible shutdown of the entire Crozer Health system​.