“Distress isn’t even a word for how these patients feel and how lost and how angry they feel,” Melanie McKendry, the lead medical assistant in the gynecology oncology department at Crozer-Chester Medical Center, said of the news that these services were going to end this week. “They’re distraught. They’re distraught.”

A pregnant patient in active labor showed up Wednesday at Crozer-Chester Medical Center’s emergency department, minutes before the hospital was scheduled to close the unit, officials said during a bankruptcy hearing for owner Prospect Medical Holdings.

Now that Crozer-Chester Medical Center's emergency department is closed, patients in Delaware County are growing more worried about the void in the health care.