Four months ago, Suburban Community Hospital in East Norriton officially transitioned into the Suburban Behavioral Health Campus of Roxborough Memorial Hospital, writes John George for the Philadelphia Business Journal.
Now, the medical center is expanding its operations at a steady pace while also exploring potential partnerships to fill vacant space.
“It’s never easy in the beginning, but it’s been good,” said Shawn Parekh, CEO of Roxborough Memorial. “Why I say good is because we’re doing things here that we hadn’t done before.”
A net loss of $14.3 million in fiscal 2024 led California-based Prime Healthcare Foundation, the hospital’s owner, to stop operating the facility as an acute care hospital on June 30. Instead, Prime Healthcare transformed the facility into a 15-bed geriatric behavioral health unit, led by Dr. Michael Su.
Since its official transformation, the unit’s daily census has gone as high as six patients, according to Parekh.
The hospital’s second floor houses the behavioral health unit, while two physician practices and a women’s health group also operate on the campus. Roughly 60 to 70 percent of the facility is still vacant.
Read more about the Suburban Behavioral Health Campus of Roxborough Memorial Hospital in the Philadelphia Business Journal.
