Bryn Mawr Hospital construction planned
Bryn Mawr Hospital announced plans Thursday for a $200 million modernization of its campus, including a five-story, 203,000-square-foot patient pavilion with 12 operating rooms and 72 private patient rooms.
Bryn Mawr Hospital announced plans Thursday for a $200 million modernization of its campus, including a five-story, 203,000-square-foot patient pavilion with 12 operating rooms and 72 private patient rooms.
Bryn Mawr will have 250 inpatient rooms after the project is completed. That is about the same number it uses now.
"It's a historic modernization project that takes us to the next chapter for this hospital and this community, but it is clearly on the inpatient side, not a growth strategy," said Andrea Gilbert, president of the hospital.
The building will increase operating rooms for inpatients by four, Gilbert said.
Included in the $200 million budget are upgrades to Bryn Mawr's labor/delivery and maternity-care units.
The project comes two years after Main Line Health completed a $465 million remake of Lankenau Medical Center's Wynnewood campus - paid for mostly with cash from operations and money from the Lankenau Hospital Foundation.
The Bryn Mawr plan is similar, with $136 million to be paid out of operating cash flow, $34 million from debt, and $30 million from a capital campaign.
"That's our goal. I think we're off to a very good start," Gilbert said.
The Lower Merion Township Board of Commissioners gave the plan for a new pavilion an early-stage approval Wednesday, but the nonprofit hospital has two more stages of approval to get through, a township official said.
In a parallel project, a four-story, 100,000-square-foot medical office building, being constructed by a national developer on land owned by the hospital, is further along in the approval process, said Christopher Leswing, assistant director of building and planning for Lower Merion Township.
A groundbreaking project for the office building, which is not included in the $200 million, is scheduled for this fall with completion expected a year later.
Bryn Mawr officials declined to name the developer or say how much that building will cost.
Hospital construction is expected to start in the summer of 2016 and be completed in the winter of 2018, Bryn Mawr said.