Bryn Mawr Hospital

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Bryn Mawr Hospital
Main Line Health
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Geography
Location	Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States
Organization
Funding	Non-profit hospital
Type	Specialized
Network	Main Line Health
Services
Standards	Joint Commission
Emergency department	Yes
Beds	287
History
Opened	1893 [1]
Links
Website	www.mainlinehealth.org/locations/bryn-mawr-hospital
Lists	Hospitals in Pennsylvania

Bryn Mawr Hospital, founded in 1893, is a Pennsylvania hospital in the western suburbs of Philadelphia that is part of Main Line Health, a community-based not-for-profit health system, comprising Lankenau Medical Center, Paoli Hospital, Riddle Hospital and Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital. It is located at 130 South Bryn Mawr Avenue in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

Bryn Mawr Hospital offers specialized centers and programs, including a Comprehensive Breast Center, Bariatrics Center, Orthopedic Center, Outpatient Imaging Center, Cancer Center, TMS Center for depression, Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and a partnership with Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, which brings specialized pediatric care to the hospital.

In 2010, Bryn Mawr received Chest Pain Center Accreditation from the Society of Chest Pain Centers. Then, in 2011, U.S. News & World Report ranked Bryn Mawr Hospital as one of the Philadelphia region's best hospitals, and, in the same year, Bryn Mawr Hospital was recognized as a Top 100 Hospital and a Top 50 Cardiovascular Hospital by Thomson Reuters. In addition, The Joint Commission named Bryn Mawr Hospital one of the nation's top performers on key quality measures in 2011.

In 2007, Bryn Mawr Hospital opened the Bryn Mawr Hospital Health Center in Newtown Square, Pa, which was later renamed the Main Line Health Center in Newtown Square. John T. Schwarz currently serves as the President of Bryn Mawr Hospital.

In 2016, Main Line Health broke ground on a $200 million expansion of Bryn Mawr Hospital, which included adding over 200,000 square feet of space including 12 new operating rooms.^[2]

Bryn Mawr Hospital is not to be confused with Brynn Marr Hospital, a 100-bed psychiatric hospital in Jacksonville, North Carolina.

Hospital rating data[]

The HealthGrades website contains the latest quality data for Bryn Mawr Hospital, as of 2015. For this rating section three different types of data from HealthGrades are presented: quality ratings for thirty-eight inpatient conditions and procedures, thirteen patient safety indicators, percentage of patients giving the hospital a 9 or 10 (the two highest possible ratings).

For inpatient conditions and procedures, there are three possible ratings: worse than expected, as expected, better than expected. For Bryn Mawr Hospital the data for this category is:

• Worse than expected - 7
• As expected - 22
• Better than expected - 9

For patient safety indicators, there are the same three possible ratings. For this hospital four indicators were rated as:

• Worse than expected - 1
• As expected - 12
• Better than expected - 0

Data for patients giving this hospital a 9 or 10 are:

• Patients rating this hospital as a 9 or 10 - 74%
• Patients rating hospitals as a 9 or 10 nationally - 69%^[3]

See also[]

• The Devon Horse Show, which is held annually for the benefit of the hospital

References[]

External links[]

• Main Line Health

Coordinates: 40°01′08″N 75°19′16″W / 40.019°N 75.321°W / 40.019; -75.321