"This really hit hard": Pennsylvania hospital shutdown strains health care delivery, first responders say

First responders tell CBS News the closure last November of the nearly century-old Delaware County Memorial Hospital in suburban Philadelphia has stretched the area's health care system to its limits.

"Everybody's feeling this," veteran paramedic Jim McCans told CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jonathan LaPook. "This really hit hard."

Pennsylvania's Health Department shut down the hospital after learning the facility was inadequately staffed by its owner, Prospect Medical Holdings. The Los Angeles-based company has been one focus of an ongoing CBS News investigation into the role played by private equity in the collapse of hospitals serving some of America's most vulnerable residents.