Tower Health faces critical choices in the coming weeks, months

Tower Health, an entity less than five years old with hospitals that include Brandywine Hospital and Jennersville Hospital and Phoenixville Hospital in Chester County, is  in a desperate financial situation, and has major decisions ahead. The anchor of the nonprofit system, Reading Hospital, has been the moneymaker for the network while the five hospitals closer to Philadelphia that Reading acquired in 2017 to form the system have been struggling, records show.