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Prime Healthcare Foundation is turning Suburban Community Hospital in East Norriton into a behavioral health facility with 15 beds for adults 55 and older, the California organization announced Friday.
Other services will close at Suburban under the change effective July 1.Prime had suspended services at the hospital’s15-bed psychiatric unit last year.
Suburban’s downsizing started last summer, when it limited offerings to emergency and diagnostic services as a micro-hospital.
Prime noted that Jefferson Einstein Montgomery Hospital is the nearest ED, just 2 miles from Suburban.
