RIDLEY, Pa. - Maureen Tribuiani said she knows her 87-year-old mother’s time is coming. It’s an indescribable pain, but one that was slightly alleviated knowing she was at least in good hands."We don’t know if it’s going to be weeks,or a month, or months, but she’s still at the end, and I want her happy and comfortable, and she was very comfortable there," Tribuiani said.She brought her mother, Mary "Mae" Doherty, to the 10-bed inpatient hospice unit at Taylor Hospital in Ridley Park back on Jan.
17th with no warning signs the unit was weeks away from closing."We were so excited because it was such a great facility, had a great reputation," Tribuiani said.
But on Friday, Tribuiani claims they got a sudden phone call that the unit was closing in one week on Feb. 11 and they have to move Mae.Crozer Health provided the following statement about the closure: "Due to the paramount need for patient safety, declining admissions to inpatient hospice, and challenges presented by the national nursing shortage, Crozer Health will temporarily close our inpatient hospice unit at Taylor Hospital beginning Friday, February 11.
This will allow us to redeploy our staff from the hospice unit to other areas in the health system in need of additional resources so we can continue to provide safe, high-quality care to all of our patients."MORE LOCAL HEADLINESCrozer also said current patients in the unit will be relocated to a nearby medical/surgical floor at Taylor Hospital, but Tribuiani claims they were never told that."It’s so weird that they would admit a patient two weeks prior to that announcement, they had to have known this was in the works," Tribuiani said. "They cannot do this to people, it’s unfair, it just is not right."A nurse.