The closure — expected to be completed within 30 days and affecting 3,000 workers and nearly 75,000 patients —comes after Penn offered a $5 million cash influx to assume two of the system's leases.

Crozer-Chester Medical Center and Taylor Hospital in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, will close after months of uncertainty, according to Prospect Medical Holdings, the parent company of Crozer Health.

The plan is that it’s over on May 2. A patient care ombudsman has been appointed to watch how patient offloading goes and other aspects of the wind down.