Healthcare
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CHOP unveils plans for another hospital in King of Prussia
By Joe Barron Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia announced plans Tuesday for a full-service, inpatient medical center in King of Prussia — its first outside the city in its 160-year history. The 52-bed, 250,000-square-foot hospital will be built beside CHOP’s specialty care and outpatient surgery center on Goddard Boulevard and is expected to open in 2021.…
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Fox Chase Cancer Center unveils its first suburban outpatient care site
Fox Chase Center Center, looking to expand its reach deeper into the Philadelphia suburbs, officially unveiled its first suburban outpatient center Friday. In a partnership with Suburban Community Hospital, Fox Chase took over operation of the East Norriton, medical center’s 11,474-square-foot cancer center that was originally built in 2012, writes John George in the Philadelphia Business…
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BrainSpark Health in Plymouth Meeting offers a new route for opioid addiction
A new Montgomery County treatment center, which is taking an unconventional treatment approach, has joined the increasingly crowded field of facilities for people with opioid addiction problems. BrainSpark in Plymouth Meeting is offering patients with drug and alcohol addictions NAD IV therapy. “Technically, it’s a rebooting of your brain,” said Dr. Franco Picofazzi, a dental surgeon…
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Pottstown Hospital recognized with award, accreditation
Pottstown Hospital has recently been recognized by two national organizations. The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association has presented Pottstown Hospital with its Get With The Guidelines — Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award for the hospital’s treatment of stroke patients, according to a submitted press release. In addition, the hospital has been awarded a three-year…
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Opioid crisis spurs growth of treatment centers
The opioid addiction epidemic, which during the past two years has claimed more than 2,000 lives in Philadelphia, has fueled a rapid proliferation of privately owned and operated addiction treatment centers in the region. Renovations currently underway will nearly double the number of patient rooms at a Main Line inpatient addiction treatment facility, writes John…
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Main Line Health receives $45K grant from State Farm to support mock crash demonstrations
Main Line Health recently accepted a $45,000 grant from State Farm Insurance Co. in support of demonstrations aimed at raising teen awareness about the dangers of impaired and distracted driving, according to a press release The grant allows Main Line Health to offer the Mock Crash and Bryn Mawr Hospital’s Cruisin’ Smart demonstrations at 10…
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CHOP’s ‘Breakthroughs in Pediatric Surgery’ puts spotlight on advancement
By Katie Kohler Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia relentlessly strives to create breakthroughs. The Division of Orthopaedics is one of the largest, most active in the world and is consistently ranked the best in the nation by U.S. News and World Report. In 2017, CHOP’s clinical program reached a record number of surgical cases and patients…
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Asplundh Cancer Pavilion to open in Willow Grove
Abington-Jefferson Health is getting ready to open its $80 million Asplundh Cancer Pavilion at its Willow Grove campus. The facility is set to begin providing care to patients July 2, but the hospital hosted its first open house for high-level donors Monday night, writes John George at bizjournals.com. [uam_ad id=”54865″] The 86,000-square-foot center features separate…
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Einstein Medical Center Montgomery installs NicView cameras in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Parents whose newborns are admitted into neonatal intensive care units (NICU) can feel isolated spending endless hours away from their babies, Thanks to an innovative new technology, Einstein Medical Center Montgomery in East Norriton is now transforming that isolation into a virtual connection that is available around the clock. To make the separation from babies…
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Lankenau Medical center posts a loss for Main Line Health
When the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council published its latest financial performance report for state hospitals this week, one of the figures that jumped out was the net loss posted by a suburban Philadelphia medical center that is typically among the most profitable in the region. Lankenau Medical Center, a 331-bed tertiary care center…
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Angel Flight East program targets rural areas and rare diseases
Angel Flight East, a Montgomery County nonprofit organization that provides free air transportation to health care facilities for patients in need, has established a new program called Rural & Rare Reach. The goal of the new program to broaden access to medical care for individuals living in rural areas, as well as patients with cancer…
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Mercy LIFE Breaks Ground on new adult day medical center in Montgomery County
Mercy LIFE leaders and local officials broke ground on a new adult day medical center in Montgomery County. The new Mercy LIFE – Norristown facility, located at 1430 Dekalb Street, will be a welcoming place for seniors ages 55 and over to receive medical, nutritional, social and spiritual services, while being transported safely to and…
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Skyline Healthcare ousted from nine nursing homes in Pa.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health said Wednesday it had installed temporary management at nine nursing homes operated by Skyline Healthcare LLC after finding that the Wood-Ridge, N.J. company, which took over at least 100 nursing homes in seven states since 2015, “could no longer fiscally operate the facilities.” Included are nursing homes located in Lansdale and…
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Ilera Healthcare opening medical marijuana dispensary in Plymouth
Ilera Healthcare, Pennsylvania’s premier medical marijuana cultivator, processor and dispenser, will open its new dispensary location in Plymouth Meeting on Friday and will unveil its line of marijuana-based medicines, according to a submitted press release. Ilera’s product offering, which is currently available in tinctures, vaporizable oils and topical creams, was developed to address the 21 different disease…
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Pa. ranks 4th in NIH grants
Philadelphia and Pennsylvania were well represented among cities and states receiving grants from the National Institutes of Health under the 2017 federal budget. Pennsylvania ranked fourth in both the number of grants, at 3,582, and the total amount of the awards, at $1.67 billion, while New Jersey ranked 25th, write John George and Jeff Jeffrey at…
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Einstein Healthcare Network and Solis Mammography ‘Go Live’
On the heels of an announcement last fall, Einstein Healthcare Network has “gone live” with its partnership with Solis Mammography, the nation’s largest independent provider of breast imaging services, in an effort to upgrade the patient experience at its mammography centers in the Philadelphia region. The centers, now jointly managed by Einstein Healthcare Network and…
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Philly area hospitals receive ‘A’ safety grade
Fifteeen Philadelphia area hospitals, including Einstein Medical Center Montgomery and Abington Health Lansdale, recently received an “A” for hospital safety from the Leapfrog Group in its bi-annual report issued Tuesday. The 15 were selected from among 53 area medical centers that were graded, writes John George at bizjournals.com. [uam_ad id=”54865″] The report focuses on hospital errors, accidents,…
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Sale of marijuana ‘flower’ now allowed in PA to treat opioid addiction
The price of medical marijuana could fall dramatically for some patients by mid-summer. And the drug will soon be used to treat opioid withdrawal in Pennsylvania, which will become the second state after New Jersey to allow it for that purpose. At a news conference in Harrisburg, Secretary of Health Rachel Levine said she had approved the sale of cannabis…
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