Main Line Health is planning a $200 million
"modernization" project at Bryn Mawr Hospital.
Health system officials described the Bryn Mawr Hospital
initiative as "the most significant facility improvement" in its
122-year existence and the second largest capital investment in Main Line
Health history.
"This is historic," said Andrea Gilbert, Bryn
Mawr Hospital's president. "This is the next chapter in Bryn Mawr
Hospital's long history. We waited a long time to do this. We wanted to assess
what the community's future needs will be. We spent the last decade studying
all of that, and now we are ready to roll up our sleeves and make this
investment."
Jack Lynch, the president and CEO of Main Line health
said the project will ensure Bryn Mawr Hospital is positioned to provide
preventive health services as well as advanced technology and treatment options
for patients and community members "well into the future.”
The centerpiece of the project is a five-story,
203,000-square-foot patient-care pavilion that will allow the hospital to
convert from a mix of private and semi-private patient rooms to all private
rooms.
Two floors of the pavilion will house 54 new
medical/surgical beds. The building will also create space for a new 18-bed
intensive care unit and 12 new operating rooms.
The hospital is licensed for 319 beds. Gilbert said the
number of staffed inpatient beds, now about 250, is expected to remain at that
level after the project is completed.
The building — in the center of the hospital's largely
land-locked campus — will replace its Clothier Building and a medical office
building, both of which were torn down last summer.
The project also includes major renovations to the
hospital's maternity department and to its Warden Lobby, the hospital’s main
entrance on Old Lancaster Road, along with an addition of two levels to the
Bryn Mawr Avenue parking garage.
Along with the $200 million modernization project, a new
100,000-square-foot medical office building for multi-specialty doctors'
offices will be built on Bryn Mawr Avenue by an unnamed private, national
developer.
Construction for the new patient-care pavilion and the
other hospital renovations will begin the summer of 2016. Completion is expected
by the winter of 2018. The architecture and planning firm RTKL is designing the
pavilion. HSC Builders & Construction Managers is overseeing the
construction. Stantec Consulting Services Inc. is serving as the overall
project manager.
The Bryn Mawr Hospital project is Main Line Health’s
third major hospital expansion initiative in recent years.
Last year, Lankenau Medical Center in Wynnewood, Pa.,
completed a $465 million expansion and renovation project that included the
274,000-square-feet Heart & Vascular Pavilion.
Paoli Hospital in Chester County underwent a $145 million
expansion, completed in 2009, that included a 259,000-square-foot patient-care
pavilion that doubled the size of the medical center.
The health system also opened a $40 million,
80,000-square-foot outpatient facility in 2010 at Riddle Memorial Hospital in
Media, Pa.
Main Line Health’s building projects — driven by the need
for newer and more modern facilities to serve aging baby boomers and growing
populations in some of the communities it serves — haven’t always been welcome
by the hospitals' neighbors.
When it proposed in 2002 to buy up what amounted to a
block of houses near its Bryn Mawr Hospital, neighbors thought the move was
overly aggressive. It again caused a stir in 2004 when it planned to expand
Lankenau Hospital by 1 million square feet and rezone land to accommodate those
new facilities.
After initial trepidation, much of the expansion has
occurred after making some adjustments to placate community concerns. It appears
from early indications that this next round of development that the health
system is proposing to undertake at Bryn Mawr is being better received. Lower
Merion’s planning commission moved earlier this month to recommend approval for
the health system’s plans.
Lankenau and Paoli were the two most profitable suburban
Philadelphia hospitals in 2013, according to the most recent financial
performance report issued by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment
Council. That report showed Main Line’s other two acute-care hospitals were
also profitable in a year when eight of the 24 hospitals in the four counties
surrounding Philadelphia posted losses. Bryn Mawr had a net income of $41.4
million. Riddle Memorial in Media, Pa., eked out profit of $367,000.
Source: Philadelphia
Business Journal
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