Riddle Hospital Modernization Project Gets Underway With Groundbreaking Thursday

By David Bjorkgren

Published: 5:28 am EDT October 16, 2020Published: October 16, 2020Updated: 10:54 pm EDT October 15, 2020

Leadership from Main Line Health and Wawa line up to break ground on Riddle’s campus modernization project. They are (from left) Don Saleski, chair of the Riddle Hospital Foundation Board; Rich Wood, director of Government Affairs & Sustainability, Wawa, Inc.; Jack Lynch, Main Line Health president & CEO; Shelly Buck, Riddle Hospital president; Alex Costabile, vice president of Strategy, Wawa, Inc.; and Jay Culotta, treasurer, Wawa, Inc. and president of The Wawa Foundation, flanked by The Wawa Foundation team. Image via Main Line Health.

Main Line Health kicked off its campus modernization project Thursday for Riddle Hospital with a groundbreaking ceremony.

The $327 million project that will include a new patient pavilion, and renovations to existing care unit and support areas.

Main Line Health President & CEO Jack Lynch provides opening remarks at Thursday’s groundbreaking event, thanking donors, partners, community and patients for their support. Image via Main Line Health.

“When Riddle Hospital was founded in 1963, it was with the mission of Samuel Riddle in mind: to provide compassionate, comprehensive care to the people of Delaware County. Now, more than 50 years later, we prepare to enter a new chapter in Riddle’s storied history,” says Shelly Buck, president of Riddle Hospital.

A 230,000 square-foot, five-story Patient Pavilion will be built in the first phase of the project. It is expected to be completed in the summer of 2023.

The Pavilion will feature:

76 acuity-adaptable private patient rooms
An operating room suite with 10 operating rooms and three procedure rooms
The relocation of the Riddle Birthplace to five labor & delivery suites, 16 post-partum rooms, two C-section suites and a Level II NICU
A dedicated physical therapy gym
Radiology and laboratory services
Registration and pre-admission testing
A cafeteria and atrium café

The second final phase, completed in the summer of 2024, will renovate the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.

When entirely finished, the hospital will have private patient rooms, contemporary facilities and advanced technology to support the evolving needs of the community.

Wawa, Inc. and the Wawa Foundation, partners of Riddle Hospital, attended the groundbreaking ceremony. The Wawa Foundation pledged $2.2 million to support the project, the largest gift to the campaign from an individual benefactor.

“It’s an honor to continue supporting Riddle Hospital of Main Line Health Hospital, as they embark on this exciting expansion to provide exceptional care to more friends and neighbors in Delaware County,” said Alex Costabile, Vice President of Strategy, Wawa, Inc.

“We are humbled and incredibly grateful for this investment in our future, and look forward to honoring this generous gift with a spirit of service that is innate to the Riddle and Wawa legacies,” said Jack Lynch, President & CEO of Main Line Health.

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