UPPER PROVIDENCE PA – Main Line Health, a non-profit Philadelphia area health system that operates five hospitals in Montgomery, Chester, and Delaware counties, is proposing to build a sixth near the Collegeville exit of U.S. Route 422.
Its five tentative sketch plan drawings are now available online. They call, over time, for creation of a more than 40-acre hospital campus on mostly vacant land located between South Mennonite and Arcola roads.
The campus prospectively includes a 7-story hospital of more than 536,000 square feet. It would be accompanied by two 4-story medical office buildings, several surrounding surface parking areas, and two proposed parking structures.
Its location would be across from the Providence Town Center shopping complex, with plans showing the campus would front Arcola Road. They also show its main entrance and exit would coincide with the intersection of Arcola at the center’s privately owned Market Street.
A green-colored open-space plan that is part of the submission indicates a substantial landscaping buffer area located at the rear of the campus.
Main Line Health currently operates a health services building at 599 Arcola Rd. Its five hospitals are Lankenau Medical Center in Wynnewood, Bryn Mawr Hospital in Bryn Mawr, Paoli Hospital in Paoli, Paoli, Riddle Hospital in Media, and Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital in Malvern.
Image from Upper Providence Township planning documents
No Official Actions Taken
Main Line’s plans were submitted June 2 (2026; Tuesday) to Upper Providence Township, its Planning Commission acknowledged. Other than accepting the proposal for review, which is considered a routine municipal task, no official actions have been taken.
The commission is next scheduled to meet June 17 (Wednesday) at 7 p.m. in the township administration building, 1286 Black Rock Rd., Phoenixville PA. It is unknown if the proposed hospital would be a subject of discussion at the meeting. Its agenda is not yet available for public viewing.
More Changes Ahead in Area Healthcare?
Creating a Main Line hospital in Collegeville, if approved and built, may be only a glimpse of future changes and competition ahead for area healthcare providers. Some have said they are already working to attract more patients, and expand market share, in western Montgomery County.
Reading-based Tower Health during fiscal 2026 consolidated services at its Pottstown and Phoenixville hospitals. It helped both to reduce costs and improve bottom lines, the Philadelphia Business Journal reported during May. Tower Health told the Journal its priorities include “expanding access to specialty care, (and) growing outpatient services.”
However, moves to close departments and end some services at Pottstown Hospital – which brightened its balance sheet – also resulted in strong public push-back last November.
Changes are occurring as well in the Lehigh Valley Health Network, a subsidiary of Jefferson Health. The network this month added to its fleet of mobile health care units. They are designed to “serve a variety of patients and their clinical needs,” the network says.
More significant for Lehigh was the June 2024 opening of its own hospital in Gilbertsville. An upgrade to the hospital’s cardiac imaging equipment arrived in November 2025, with the installation of what it calls “a latest-generation heart and chest scanner” that exposes patients to less radiation.
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