Episodes

  • Part 5, The Fall of Crozer Health: "A Symptom of a Broken System"
    May 29 2025

    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.

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    43 mins
  • The Fall of Crozer Health, Part 4: "If You Think It's Bad Now"
    May 22 2025

    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.

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    45 mins
  • Part 3, The Fall of Crozer Health: "Betrayal. Plain and Simple."
    May 15 2025

    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.

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    30 mins
  • The Fall of Crozer Health, Part 2: "It was surreal."
    May 8 2025

    The story of private equity in healthcare is often told in numbers, spreadsheets and transcripts from bankruptcy court. But in Part 2 of our series, we hear from the people in the trenches and on the front lines of Crozer Health, a collapsed hospital system in Pennsylvania, who are living out the awful consequences of decisions made, not by clinicians in Delaware County, but by executives in California and a judge in Texas.

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    31 mins
  • Part 1, The Fall of Crozer Health: "Today is not good."
    May 1 2025

    The Crozer Chester Medical Center in PA is closing as we speak, but the fall of Delaware County's largest hospital system has been building for years. In interviews with the doctors, nurses, paramedics, and legislators who kept Delaware County healthy, Wendy and Matt go behind the headlines and speak to the people who are living through these changes right now.

    This is the first episode in a multi-part series focusing specifically on Crozer Health.

    New episodes drop each week.

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    30 mins
  • "Press 1 for Billing"
    Apr 24 2025

    We're never more aware of the need for real human interaction than when faced with an automated Patient Portal. In this special bonus ep., Wendy and Matt share a listener voice memo about the challenges of navigating patient care through AI, and talk about how we can - and must - do better.

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    12 mins
  • The Last Human Job: Part 2
    Apr 24 2025

    The 'social architecture' of an organization can make or break meaningful connections between patients and physicians, and physicians and the administration. In Part 2 of our two part series, Allison Pugh, a research professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University and author of The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World joins us to talk about how we can foster connective labor within larger organizations, what happens when that connection fails, and where AI fits in to all of it.

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    50 mins
  • The Last Human Job: Part 1
    Apr 10 2025

    There's a growing sense of disconnection in our lives, and a growing number of reasons why. But instead of focusing on what's forcing us apart, we want to look at the work we can do to bring people together - and why it matters. In Part 1 of a two part series, Allison Pugh, a research professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University and author of The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World, joins us to talk about the art and science of the most important cognitive exercise you've likely never heard of: Connective Labor.

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    47 mins
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