The Times Herald (Norristown, PA)
Main Line Health expanding into King of Prussia
UPPER MERION » Sometime next year The Village at Valley Forge will welcome the opening of a new facility dedicated to a host of traditional and holistic services focusing on women’s health and wellness.
Main Line Health (MLH) and Axia Women’s Health are partnering to establish and operate Main Line Health in King of Prussia, a specialty care center that will provide a full range of preventive, diagnostic and treatment services, noted JoAnn Magnatta, MLH senior vice president of facilities design and construction.
“We have been looking at King of Prussia for many years and we decided on The Village at Valley Forge about a year ago and had been working through securing the land, zoning and putting the development team together,” Magnatta said. “The location really suits us well because of its location near some of the major arteries that feed onto the site. And it’s an excellent opportunity to not only serve the surrounding community of King of Prussia but also to be in the midst of a development that will have over 3,000 residents within the King of Prussia Town Center.”
Main Line Health in King of Prussia will offer rheumatology and autoimmune services; digestive health care; headache and neurology; healthy aging and gerontology; heart and vascular care, endocrinology; primary care; obstetrics and gynecology; a menopause and midlife center; pelvic floor care; reproductive endocrinology and infertility services.
In addition to mammography, ultrasound, biopsy and surgical consults, dermatology, esthetics and plastic surgery consults, the center will support women’s emotional wellness, including individual and group counseling and post-partum depression care; comprehensive weight management; integrative medicine and mindfulness therapies, including acupuncture and Reiki.
Also located within the new
facility, an ambulatory care center will bring health and wellness services to both men and women, including primary care, cardiology and cardiac testing, endocrinology, neurology, general surgery, orthopedics, imaging, physical therapy and lab services.
MLH now operates ambulatory sites in Collegeville, Exton, Broomall and Newtown Square, Magnatta noted.
“Right now within health care, as we see the changing landscape, the focus is on trying to move as many patients into an ambulatory environment with outpatient centers, to not only provide services closer to home but also to promote health and wellness within the community so that they don’t end up in the hospital,” she said.
As noted in a press release, Main Line Health, founded in 1985, is a not-forprofit health system serving portions of Philadelphia and its western suburbs. At its core are four of the region’s acute care hospitals — Lankenau Medical Center, Bryn Mawr Hospital, Paoli Hospital and Riddle Hospital, as well as Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation Hospital; Mirmont Treatment Center for drug and alcohol recovery and Main Line Health HomeCare & Hospice, a home health service. Main Line Health also consists of Main Line HealthCare, one of the region’s largest multi-specialty physician networks, and the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, a non-profit biomedical research organization located on the campus of Lankenau Medical Center.
“The foundation of Main Line Health’s mission is to deliver safe, high-quality health care services to our community members,” noted Jack Lynch, president and CEO, Main Line Health. “With a focus on women’s health, this health center will allow us to expand our breadth of services to include a wide range of holistic therapies and specialty care services to meet the needs of women and their families across our region.”