Its Origins and Evolution as a Health Provider

Main Line Health is a not-for-profit healthcare system near Philadelphia that includes three acute care hospitals, a physical rehabilitation hospital, home care, physician practices, a research institute, and other facilities and services. Main Line Health employs approximately 8,000 employees. Some 1,250 physicians are members of its medical staff.

In 1985, Lankenau Hospital and Bryn Mawr Hospital, together with Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital, formed Main Line Health. In 1986, Paoli Memorial Hospital joined the System. The governance of Main Line Health was reorganized into a single Board of Governors and a single management structure in 1996. At the same time, the medical staffs of the three acute care hospitals voted to become a single medical staff. Also in 1996, Main Line Health and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital formally created Jefferson Health System. Since then, the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Frankford Health System, and Magee Rehabilitation Hospital have also joined JHS as founding members. JHS is recognized as the largest and strongest healthcare system in the Delaware Valley region.

The Hospitals of Main Line Health

Lankenau Hospital
Wynnewood, Pennsylvania
Licensed for 351 beds

Established in 1860, Lankenau Hospital is an acute-care teaching hospital with an affiliated medical research center on campus. Its specialty services include: Main Line Health Heart Center, Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, accredited Sleep Medicine Center; Lankenau Cancer Center; and the only kidney transplant program in the western suburbs of Philadelphia.

The hospital has recently renovated medical and surgical patient floors, installed a comprehensive outpatient services suite, and is preparing an expanded emergency department to accommodate demand.

The Lankenau Institute for Medical Research supports an active program of basic medical research into aging and diseases of aging, and reviews more than 200 clinical research projects underway throughout the System.

Bryn Mawr Hospital
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Licensed for 283 beds

Established in 1893, Bryn Mawr Hospital is a full service community acute-care teaching hospital. It is known for a high level of personalized care by exceptional physicians, surgeons and nursing staff in both inpatient and outpatient settings.

Some of its specialized departments are: Arthritis and Orthopedic Center; Center for Reproductive Medicine; Bryn Mawr Cancer Center; Main Line Health Heart Center; and a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The hospital is the Main Line Health inpatient pediatric center for “duPont at Bryn Mawr,” which enables duPont Hospital for Children specialists and surgeons to treat the area’s children.

Paoli Memorial Hospital
Paoli, Pensylvania
Licensed for 211 beds

Located in Chester County, Paoli Memorial Hospital is a community hospital with a 211-bed licensed capacity. The Medical Staff is composed of more than 500 physicians and dentists representing a wide range of medical, surgical and diagnostic specialties. Its patient-focused care philosophy brings together small, personalized teams of physicians, nurses and technical support personnel.

In addition to providing comprehensive medical, psychiatric, surgical and emergency services, the hospital provides a full range of diagnostic and testing capabilities; a Family Centered Maternity Unit to serve our community’s growing number of young families; and community education programs and support groups.

Bryn Mawr Rehab
Malvern, Pennsylvania
Licensed for 141 beds

Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital is a center of excellence for rehabilitation care and a pioneer and leader in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation.

It offers a variety of innovative programs and services for people with physical and cognitive disabilities. Services are provided in multiple settings including an acute rehabilitation hospital, as well as at community-based sites. The hospital has a national reputation in the treatment of spinal cord injuries and brain injuries, and for medical rehabilitation using leading edge therapies.