Communities all across Pennsylvania are dealing with the significant economic fallout from hospitals being forced to lay off or furlough employees as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. That problem could grow even worse as some hospitals struggle to remain open.
Fortunately, Penn State Health’s acquisition of Holy Spirit Hospital could prevent such a disastrous outcome from happening here in Central Pennsylvania. Not only would the potential closure of a hospital hurt our region’s fine reputation of health care, but it would devastate sectors of our economy that depend on hospitals.
We know this because more than one in 10 jobs in Pennsylvania are supported by hospitals. In fact, Pennsylvania hospitals provided an immense $136.1 billion economic impact, supporting over 650,000 jobs in 2018, according to a study by the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP).
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