Staff photo by Erin O. Smith / Former Erlanger Health System CEO Kevin Spiegel speaks Tues., June 6, 2017, during the groundbreaking ceremony at the site for the new Erlanger Children's Hospital on Third Street in Chattanooga, Tenn. Spiegel, who left Erlanger in 2019, was named this week as CEO of Crozer Health hospitals in Delaware, Pennsylvania.Former Erlanger Medical Center President Kevin Spiegel has been named CEO for Crozer Health, which operates four hospitals in the Philadelphia suburbs in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
Spiegel, who headed Chattanooga's biggest hospital for six and a half years, left Erlanger in September 2019 and relocated to the Miami area in south Florida. In March 2020, Spiegel joined Prospect Medical Holdings Inc., a Los Angeles-based hospital chain that owns Crozer Health, as senior vice president of strategy and revenue.
Prospect has owned Crozer Health since 2016, including four Delaware County hospitals: Crozer-Chester Medical Center, Delaware County Memorial, Springfield Hospital and Taylor Hospital.
Spiegel was named this week to replace Peter Adamo, who was CEO of Crozer Health for two years and is leaving the hospital on Feb. 11, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Staff photo by C.B. Schmelter / Kevin SpiegelProspect put Crozer Health and other hospitals it owns on the East Coast up for sale in October.
Details on Crozer's financial performance are not public, but there are signs that Crozer has struggled financially, The Inquirer said. Last month, Crozer closed the maternity unit at Delaware County Memorial Hospital. Crozer's website says that the company "has temporarily suspended all hospital-based services at the Springfield Hospital" and the hospital "has been struggling to find enough nurses and therapists to care for its patients" similar to other hospitals facing staff shortages during the pandemic.
Spiegel, who describes himself as a turnaround specialist, helped grow Erlanger revenues and income while he was hospital CEO from 2013 to 2019, nearly doubling revenues and putting the hospital back in the black during his tenure. Physicians complained about Spiegel's leadership approach and urged Erlanger trustees to replace him as CEO.
A New York native, Spiegel previously served for over five years as CEO at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis before joining Erlanger.
After leaving Erlanger and moving with his wife Judy to Surfside, Florida near Miami, the Spiegels' condominium home collapsed last July. Judy Spiegel was one of nearly 100 residents who died in the collapse of the 12-story Champlain Towers South. Kevin Spiegel was working in California when the collapse occurred.