READING, Pa. (AP) - Reading Health System plans to buy five other eastern Pennsylvania hospitals and change the system’s name to Tower Health.
The Reading Eagle (https://bit.ly/2raAYTw ) says Reading Health announced the plans Tuesday, but didn’t immediately release additional details.
The statement says Reading Health and subsidiaries of Tennessee-based Community Health Systems have an asset purchase agreement to buy Pottstown Memorial Medical Center; Brandywine Hospital in Coatesville; Phoenixville Hospital; Jennersville Regional Hospital in West Grove; and Chestnut Hill Hospital in Philadelphia.
The healthy system says the new network will serve about 2.5 million people.
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