Penn Medicine broke ground Monday on its planned $224 million Roberts Proton Therapy Center in University City, expected to open in late 2027 at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. The facility will be Penn Medicine’s fourth proton therapy center, joining locations at the Perelman Center (opened in 2010), Lancaster General Health (2022), and Virtua Voorhees (2023,… Read more »
Penn Medicine has begun construction on a $270 million, 162,000-square-foot outpatient center at 200 DeKalb Pike in Montgomeryville. Scheduled to open in late 2027, the new facility will bridge a geographic gap in Penn’s outpatient network between its Radnor center and newly acquired Doylestown Hospital. The center will offer a wide range of services, including… Read more »
Efforts to sell Crozer Health took several unexpected turns in the past 24 hours, with a new lawsuit quickly withdrawn and news emerging that Penn Medicine is working behind the scenes to help save the struggling health system. These developments follow Crozer’s parent company, Prospect Medical, reporting in U.S. Bankruptcy Court Wednesday that it is… Read more »
Penn Medicine recently finalized the acquisition of a 12-acre plot in Montgomery County for the development of a state-of-the-art multi-specialty outpatient care center. The purchased land, situated at 200 Dekalb Pike, amid Welsh and Knapp roads within Montgomeryville’s boundaries in Montgomery Township, was procured from HRD Investments LLC, according to county property records. Previous presentations… Read more »
Tower Health and Penn Medicine have decided not to move forward with a potential clinical affiliation announced by the Berks County health system more than a year-and-a-half ago. In a statement, the two health systems said they have “mutually and amicably” agreed to no longer pursue a strategic alliance. Both Health Systems had no comments… Read more »
Penn Medicine is set to begin providing patient care on Oct. 30 at its $1.6 billion Pavilion, a 17-story building it is describing as the “future of medicine.” The 1.5-million-square-foot building in West Philadelphia — across the street from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and adjacent to the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine… Read more »
Penn Medicine plans to spend an estimated $60 million to build a new parking garage for the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center campus in West Philadelphia. The 495,000-square-foot garage at 3800 Powelton Ave. is designed to have 1,439 parking spaces. A Penn Medicine spokesperson said the structure will consolidate the parking spaces that are currently split… Read more »
The University of Pennsylvania Health System early Thursday started running the emergency department at the former Mercy Hospital in West Philadelphia as part of a partnership with Public Health Management Corp., Independence Blue Cross, and Trinity Health, the hospital’s former owner. The new name of the facility at 501 S. 54th St. is PHMC Public… Read more »
