BRYN MAWR, Pa. — Bryn Mawr Hospital, part of Main Line Health, has received tentative sketch plan approval from Lower Merion Township Board of Commissioners for a $200-million Campus Master Plan to modernize the hospital campus, the most significant facility improvement in its more than 120-year existence and the second largest capital investment in Main Line Health history. The modernization project will include a new patient pavilion, as well as renovations to the labor/delivery and maternity units. Once completed in 2018, the hospital will be equipped with all private-patient rooms, contemporary facilities and advanced technology to support the evolving needs of the community.
The new Campus Master Plan includes a five-story, 203,000-square-foot patient pavilion which is comprised of 12 replacement operating rooms in a state-of-the-art surgical suite, renovations to the Warden Lobby (the main hospital entrance) and 72 replacement patient rooms (54 medical/surgical beds and 18 critical care beds). The building will be erected in the center of the campus, taking the place of the Clothier Building and Medical Office Building South. The Campus Master Plan will be supported by a community fundraising effort.
A parallel project to the $200-million modernization project is the construction of a new medical office building by a private, national developer to construct a 100,000-square-foot MOB located on Bryn Mawr Avenue for multi-specialty clinician offices. The MOB project also involves two levels to be added to the Bryn Mawr Avenue parking garage.
RTKL is designing the patient pavilion and existing department renovations, and HSC Builders & Construction Managers is managing the building construction. Stantec Consulting Services, Inc. is serving as the overall project manager.
Groundbreaking for the MOB will begin in the fall of 2015 with completion in the fall of 2016. Groundbreaking for the new patient pavilion and other hospital renovations will begin the summer of 2016 and will be completed by winter 2018. During the entire construction process, Bryn Mawr Hospital will ensure continued excellence in patient care with limited inconvenience to patients, employees and the community.
