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Main Line<\/a> Health is adding a 108-bed patient pavilion to its Paoli<\/a> Hospital campus as part of push to expand its capacity in Chester and Montgomery Counties, the nonprofit health system announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n The building, expected to cost between $220 million and $240 million, is scheduled to open in early 2029. The project will expand Paoli\u2019s capacity by more than 40%.<\/p>\n Patient rooms will occupy three of five floors. They will be convertible from standard hospital rooms into rooms for intensive care. One floor will be used for diagnostics, such as radiology and perinatal testing. The roof will have a landing pad for helicopters. <\/p>\n Beyond Paoli, Main Line is adding to its outpatient in Downingtown<\/a>, where a large facility that has township approval will include surgical care. The health system also has shared an early-stage proposal for outpatient offices in the Collegeville area, while it considers building there what would be its fifth hospital in Philadelphia\u2019s western suburbs.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile many communities face declining access to care, Main Line Health is moving forward with optimism, investing in this region\u2019s future and reaffirming our commitment to exceptional care where people live and work,\u201d Main Line CEO Ed Jimenez said in the announcement.<\/p>\n Paoli hospital currently has 261 licensed beds and employs nearly 1,400 people<\/a>, according to Main Line. The hospital had 53,000 emergency department visits in the year that ended June 30, 2025. Main Line Health completed its last major expansion<\/a> of Paoli Hospital in 2009, doubling the facility\u2019s size.<\/p>\n Like other Philadelphia-area health systems, Main Line has experienced tough times financially since the pandemic, which led to broadly higher costs in healthcare. In the nine months that ended March 31, Main Line had a $214,000 operating profit<\/a> on $2.1 billion in revenue.<\/p>\n More Main Line projects<\/p>\n Separately, about 12 miles west of Paoli Hospital, in Downingtown, Main Line plans to open a large outpatient facility next summer. Main Line Health Downingtown, at the intersection of Lloyd and Manor Avenues, will cost $150 million and include a surgery center and substantial imaging capabilities. <\/p>\n In central Montgomery County<\/a>, as well, Main Line recently made a presentation to the Upper Providence<\/a> Township Board of Supervisors about a major development in an area where the health system has seen substantial growth. <\/p>\n The long-term could see Main Line build a 108-bed hospital, but more immediately it needs to add outpatient office space in the Collegeville area, Main Line said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min Main Line Health is adding a 108-bed patient pavilion to its Paoli Hospital…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46,228360],"class_list":["post-495846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-paoli-hospital-main-line-health-expansion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}