STILL GROWING

CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL EXPANDS

PENN — Chester County Hospital and Health System on Tuesday announced it will be the lead tenant at Jenners Village Medical Campus, a two-story, 72,000-square-foot medical building at routes 1 and 796.

Built by Anchor Health Properties of Wilmington, Del., the new medical campus will be roughly a mile from Jennersville Regional Hospital, a property of for-profit Community Health Systems of Brentwood, Tenn.

Array Healthcare Facilities Solutions of King of Prussia is the project’s architect and The Norwood Co. of Malvern will manage construction.

Groundbreaking will be held next month at the 45-acre property with opening expected

in a year, officials said.

Chester County Hospital officials said a 2009 market research study found the need for an additional 21 physicians in the southern Chester County area. It is projected that by 2014, when the building is slated to open, the need will have grown to 30 physicians.

“We have so many patients from that area — 20 percent from southwestern Chester County, (the center is being opened) to answer that need,” said Chester County Hospital spokeswoman Colleen Leonard Leyden.

The hospital will be the anchoring tenant, leasing out offices to physician practices, Leyden said.

Planned specialties to be provided at the location include a family practice, obstetrics and gynecology, cardiology, orthopedics, surgery, oto-laryngology, gastroenterology and ophthalmology.

Those specialties will be supported by stateof-the-art radiology, laboratory, and physical therapy services as well as a surgery center and after-hours family practice care.

“What we try to do with all our buildings is create a patient-focused design that provides ‘one-stop shopping’ for health care,” explained Paula Crowley, chief executive of Anchor Health Properties.

Visitors to the medical facility will be greeted by a concierge who will assist them with questions and help them navigate

“We have so many patients from that area — 20 percent from southwestern Chester County, (the center is being opened) to answer that need.”

COLLEEN LEONARD LEYDEN, Chester County Hospital spokeswoman

the building.

The lobby will have a seating area and a staffed café for refreshments and light meals for purchase.

Community rooms will become a central location for wellness programs, physician outreach events and health fairs. That space will also be available to community groups to use as a gathering place for meetings.

Outside, the concepts for the plant materials and stonework were inspired by the historic national landmarks that characterize the area.

The property will maintain much of its greenery and wooded features, and a wellness path will be added to allow members of the community to enjoy the land as they achieve their own fitness milestones, Chester County Hospital and Health System said.

The new facility means new neighbors for the existing Jennersville Regional Hospital.

“Patients in our grow- ing community are blessed to have a vital health care community close to home when making important decisions about medical care for their families,” said Jennersville spokeswoman Teresa Rougeaux.

“Jennersville Regional Hospital is a vital health care resource that has served the Southern Chester County area for close to 100 years and we continue to invest in resources and medical staff development to strengthen in- and out-patient services.”

With the completion of Jennersville’s multimillion-dollar expansion and renovation last year, patients have spacious, private rooms, Rougeaux said.

“We will continue to identify opportunities to bring our community a higher level of medical care through programs such as our membership in the Jefferson Neuroscience Network and the Jefferson Kimmel Cancer Center Network,” Rougeaux said.

Chester County Hospital is growing at home as well, building its new $45.2 million Tower Project, a 72-private-room expansion to its hospital in West Chester.

In January, the Chester County Hospital and Health System announced it signed an agreement to join the University of Pennsylvania Health System.

Financial terms were not disclosed at that time.

Photos courtesy Chester County Hospital and Health System Chester County Hospital and Health System will be the lead tenant at Jenners Village Medical Campus, a two-story, 72,000-squarefoot building pictured here in the architect’s rendering.

An architect’s rendering shows the inside of Chester County Hospital and Health System suites at Jenners Village Medical Campus. Ground-breaking will be held next month and the medical campus will open a year later, officials said.