ChristianaCare is opening its first neighborhood hospital within the firm’s 188-year historical past over the Delaware line northwest of Hockessin in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
ChristianaCare Hospital, West Grove, is scheduled to open in mid-August at 1015 W. Baltimore Pike, West Grove, providing a brand new mannequin of emergency and acute care in a contemporary, easy-to-access setting.
ChristianaCare is opening a neighborhood hospital named ChristianaCare, West Grove, with an emergency heart with 10 remedy rooms, imaging providers and 10 beds for in a single day stays in southern Chester County, Pennsylvania, at 1015 W. Baltimore Pike, West Grove.
The 20,000-square-foot hospital can be open 24 hours a day, seven days per week.
Developed in partnership with Emerus Holdings Inc., the nation’s main developer of neighborhood hospitals, this facility can be staffed with board-certified emergency physicians, expert nurses and scientific specialists.
“It’s an honor and privilege to increase entry to high-quality look after our neighbors in southern Chester County,” mentioned Janice Nevin, president and CEO of ChristianaCare, in a press launch. “We can be opening our doorways for the households on this group with a steadfast dedication to being their trusted well being care associate. We’re grateful for the chance to convey love and excellence to these we are going to serve.”
Nevin mentioned the challenge has acquired sturdy native assist and was made attainable partially by beneficiant grants from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Chester County Board of Commissioners – Josh Maxwell, Marian Moskowitz and Eric Roe – whose management helped convey this imaginative and prescient to life.
ChristianaCare Hospital, West Grove, is designed to fulfill a variety of on a regular basis medical wants with:
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A full-service emergency division with 10 remedy rooms.
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A ten-bed inpatient unit for in a single day stays, remark and diagnostics.
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Superior imaging and lab providers, together with ultrasound, CT scan and X-ray.
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Digital entry to specialists in such areas as cardiology, important care and infectious illness.
The emergency division is provided to deal with circumstances reminiscent of falls, accidents, coronary heart assaults and strokes.
This entrance is for sufferers introduced in by ambulance at ChristianaCare, West Grove, neighborhood hospital, 1015 W. Baltimore Pike, West Grove, Pennsylvania.
Sufferers requiring surgical procedure or extra complicated care can be stabilized and transferred to a hospital with extra expanded service choices based mostly on the scientific wants of the affected person.
“This neighborhood hospital brings the right combination of providers to assist the well being and well-being of our neighbors,” mentioned Pauline Corso, president of ambulatory community continuity and progress at ChristianaCare. “We’re excited to convey care near house to fulfill the wants of the group. We’re right here to remain and develop alongside this group.”
As a part of its long-term funding within the West Grove Campus, ChristianaCare has additionally bought the constructing at 900 W. Baltimore Pike, throughout the road from the hospital.
This facility homes a ChristianaCare major care follow and imaging providers, providing walk-in X-rays and scheduled mammography and ultrasound appointments. This well being heart will proceed to evolve to fulfill the rising wants of the group, Nevin mentioned.
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Extra enlargement plans in southeastern Pennsylvania
ChristianaCare is increasing its neighborhood hospital mannequin to handle care gaps throughout southeastern Pennsylvania, Nevin mentioned.
New hospitals are being deliberate for Aston and Springfield Townships in Delaware County, with the Aston location beneath development and anticipated to open in late 2026.
As well as, ChristianaCare was the profitable bidder for Crozer Well being outpatient facilities in Glen Mills, Havertown, Broomall and Media, additional strengthening its regional footprint and talent to ship well timed, high-quality care.
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Historical past of care in southeastern Pennsylvania and Delaware
ChristianaCare’s presence in southeastern Pennsylvania is long-standing. The group gives major care at three Chester County places – Kennett Sq., Jennersville and West Grove – and just lately opened a cardiology follow in West Grove.
In neighboring Delaware County, the Harmony Well being Heart in Chadds Ford provides a variety of providers, together with major care, ladies’s well being, sports activities drugs and behavioral well being.
Collectively, these websites function the medical house for greater than 25,000 residents, underscoring ChristianaCare’s deep dedication to delivering accessible, high-quality care the place it’s wanted most, Nevin mentioned.
Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, ChristianaCare additionally has a community of major care and outpatient providers, house well being care, pressing care facilities, 4 hospitals with a complete of 1,440 beds, a freestanding emergency division, a level-one trauma heart and a level-three neonatal intensive care unit, a complete stroke heart, the Gene Modifying Institute and regional facilities of excellence in coronary heart and vascular care, most cancers care and girls’s well being.
Reporter Ben Mace covers actual property, improvement and enterprise information. Attain him at rmace@gannett.com.
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