Chances are we’re in your own backyard—or pretty close to it. From Ardmore and Bryn Mawr to West Chester and Wynnewood, find a location that’s convenient for you.
Our Specialties
What services are you looking for? At Main Line Health we have physicians and staff across more than 150 specialties and services. Just start typing to find what you need.
Conditions & Treatments
Get information about more than 750 specific types of illness, injury and disease to help you understand the different kinds of treatment options and find the right doctor or service for your needs.
Patient Services
Schedule doctor, imaging and lab appointments, pay your bill, request copies of medical records, and find out more about support available to patients and families.
Whether your baby has been born prematurely or at full term but needing intensive care, it is important for you to know what your baby needs is time—time for the premature newborn to mature and time for the high-risk newborn to overcome severe illness. For both, Main Line Health's neonatal intensive care units (NICU)—located at all four acute care hospitals in the Philadelphia suburbs—are staffed by neonatology specialists from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Board certified neonatologists and neonatal advance practice providers from CHOP provide high-quality, specialized newborn and neonatal intensive care for newborns and babies.
Visitor restrictions in place at Main Line Health
Our top priority is the health and safety of our patients, staff and our community. Our current guidelines and procedures noted below were established in consultation with our infection prevention colleagues to ensure the best and safest experience we can provide during this challenging time. Please understand that changes occur frequently as the impact of the virus on our community evolves.
When you come to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, you can be confident that you and your newborn are in the hands of experts. Each year our four NICU's care for hundreds of babies who are premature, and our collaborative team supports premature and full-term infants with respiratory failure, sepsis, jaundice and other neonatal conditions that require special care. Our unit is staffed by a team of medical professionals who are specially trained in the area of newborn medicine to provide in-hospital patient care with a specific role in maintaining the health and well-being of you and your baby.
In addition to neonatology specialists, pediatric subspecialists from CHOP in neurology, cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, ophthalmology and surgery support the staff as needed. We offer advanced, state of the art neurological monitoring, cardiac testing, and specialized newborn retinal specialists – giving the families high-level of expertise. Due to respiratory systems of infants in the NICU, they are often adversely affected by prematurity and serious illness our registered respiratory therapists are available around the clock to aid in this important aspect of treatment or feeding and nutrition support.
All along the way, our nurses, specially educated and experienced in the care of high-risk and premature infants, will plan your infant's care with the neonatologist, the parents and other healthcare professionals. A social worker is also available to counsel and direct you to helpful community resources and help you to cope with the emotional stress and practical problems associated with having a baby in the NICU. Our parents' support groups. Parents Advisory Network (PAN) and Project Sweet Peas (PSP) offer additional personal support to help you deal with having a baby cared for in the NICU.
Developmental specialists
If a baby requires a prolonged hospital stay, registered physical, speech and occupational therapists are called upon to assist in the infant's developmental progress by planning exercise programs to be carried out by the nursing staff on a regular basis.
Any child who may be at risk for developmental delays will be evaluated through the first five years of life. Through the CHOP neurodevelopment follow-up program, infants and toddlers are assessed every three months for achievement of developmental milestones. Infants who demonstrate difficulties are referred for early intervention, a state-funded therapy support service.
A collaboration to provide the care your baby needs
Our team will keep you fully informed explaining your baby's diagnosis and treatment in understandable terms, discussing any treatment options you might have, and inviting your family's input for creating the treatment plan most appropriate for your baby. Daily emails are sent to you providing the latest updates in your baby's progress.
We fully recognize that you, the family, play an important role in the care and healing process of your baby. We want you to be an active participant in the decision-making process. Our physicians and nurses will work hard to build a strong partnership with you for your baby's care. At the end of your infant's hospital course, a copy of the discharge summary is faxed to your baby's primary care physician. Anything else to add about stay over rooms for families/parents, milk bank, storage for breastmilk?
Our pledge
We understand it is not easy to have a baby admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit. It is important for you to know that our neonatology team will do everything possible to make this situation go smoothly with the best possible outcome.
Main Line Health Physician Partner
Main Line Health Physician Partners is a clinically integrated network of physicians working together to improve the health and well-being of the community it servesLearn more about MLHPP
loading patient review...
Primary Office:
130 South Bryn Mawr Avenue
Bryn Mawr Hospital Inpatient Pediatrics
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Main Line Health Physician Partner
Main Line Health Physician Partners is a clinically integrated network of physicians working together to improve the health and well-being of the community it servesLearn more about MLHPP
loading patient review...
Primary Office:
130 South Bryn Mawr Avenue
Bryn Mawr Hospital Inpatient Pediatrics
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Main Line Health Physician Partner
Main Line Health Physician Partners is a clinically integrated network of physicians working together to improve the health and well-being of the community it servesLearn more about MLHPP
loading patient review...
Primary Office:
130 South Bryn Mawr Avenue
Bryn Mawr Hospital Inpatient Pediatrics
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Main Line Health Physician Partner
Main Line Health Physician Partners is a clinically integrated network of physicians working together to improve the health and well-being of the community it servesLearn more about MLHPP
loading patient review...
Primary Office:
130 South Bryn Mawr Avenue
Bryn Mawr Hospital NICU
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
“I really like coming back to the Lankenau NICU to say thank you every year,” says Olivia. “It’s become a tradition. Even though I was a newborn and I don’t remember them, I still love to go back to say thank you for everything the NICU nurses and doctors did for me when I was a baby.” Read More
For Bridget Kavitski of Media, the only thing as exciting as being pregnant with her first child was imagining how her baby would be born. It went this way: Kavitski, 28, would have a natural delivery, seeing the birth. Almost immediately, her newborn would be placed on her chest for skin-to-skin contact. Unfortunately for Kavitski and her husband, Jake, their idealized birth story was not meant to be. Instead, medical complications forced an emergency cesarean section (C-section). Nineteen months later, the Kavitskis had a second child, also a boy and also born by C-section, this one planned. Read More
