Union wants city to rezone Hahnemann property so it can't be flipped

A union representing workers from Hahnemann University Hospital has a plan it says would keep the property a hospital, and prevent it from being flipped and turned into apartments.

Chris Woods, executive vice president of District 1199C, National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees — which represented food, patient transportation, maintenance and operations workers at Hahnemann — said the union wants to work with the city to have the property rezoned so it can be used only for medical purposes.

The owner of the money-losing hospital filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy soon after announcing in late June that it would close, but the property is held by a separate entity and was not included in the bankruptcy filing.

That move, combined with the hospital’s attractive location at Broad and Vine streets at the northern end of Center City, has many speculating that Hahnemann’s owner did not make a good-faith effort to save the hospital, and instead allowed it to fail so its valuable real estate could be sold to developers.

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