Paoli hospital how many beds

We wanted to assess what the community's future needs will be. We spent the last decade studying all of that, and now we are ready to roll up our sleeves and make this investment.

Jack Lynch , the president and CEO of Main Line health said the project will ensure Bryn Mawr Hospital is positioned to provide preventive health services as well as advanced technology and treatment options for patients and community members "well into the future.

The centerpiece of the project is a five-story, ,square-foot patient-care pavilion that will allow the hospital to convert from a mix of private and semi-private patient rooms to all private rooms. The building will also create space for a new bed intensive care unit and 12 new operating rooms. The hospital is licensed for beds.

Gilbert said the number of staffed inpatient beds, now about , is expected to remain at that level after the project is completed. The building — in the center of the hospital's largely land-locked campus — will replace its Clothier Building and a medical office building, both of which were torn down last summer.

Construction for the new patient-care pavilion and the other hospital renovations will begin the summer of Completion is expected by the winter of The very first patient was treated for an injured finger, which unfortunately had to be amputated. Mary C. Davies was the first Superintendent comparable to a nursing supervisor of the Homeopathic Hospital of West Chester.

There were 27 beds in the hospital with 17 duty nurses. Well-baby clinics for babies born in the hospital were started in early They were reported as, "being popular and well attended" by April of that year. The clinic had twenty babies all under three months of age who were weighed, and given a general examination, while the mothers were advised about care and feeding.

One of the nursing school's graduates, Miss Helena Mauger, was reportedly "gone to Chicago where she was taking a four month special obstetrical course at the Laying-In Hospital of Chicago.

It included, along with bedrooms, an x-ray, laboratory facility and built-in television outlets. TV rental services came later. A lively ground breaking ceremony for the newly renamed Paoli Memorial Hospital was held on July 16, The actress, Shirley Jones, presided over the fund raising drawing for a Ford station wagon donated by Matthews Ford.