The fall of Crozer Health is a story steeped in grief, greed, the needs for dignity and for protection. In the final installment of our special series, we unpack the rollercoaster of emotions caused by the health systems failures, and speak to the lawmakers in Delaware County trying to build the legislative foundation needed to keep this from happening again.

Crozer was not an island, and what happened to them affects all the nearby health systems. In the fourth installment of this special series, we break down how one community’s loss becomes a neighboring community’s nightmare, lay out the ‘private equity playbook’, and explore how the financialization of medicine is everywhere - in every state - and how it affects us all.

When health systems are underwater, you might want to look up upstream to see what the trouble is. When you get there, sometimes you’ll find out why those systems are falling into the water. . . and sometimes you’ll find out who’s pushing them. In this episode, we’re going upstream to look at how we got to the point where a health system that served more than a hundred thousand people per year suddenly closed its doors, and what went wrong along the way.

Correction to an earlier version of the podcast: Michelle Henry was the PA Attorney General at the time she made her remarks featured in this episode, not at the time of the sale, as previously suggested. A correction has been made.