The owner of Crozer-Chester Medical Center and Taylor Hospital, Prospect Medical Holdings, filed a bankruptcy motion last week seeking a judge's permission to close the facilities.

Prospect Medical is seeking approval for an expedited closure of Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland and Taylor Hospital in Ridley Park, along Crozer's other health centers.

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.