Encompass Health held a ribbon-cutting on April 29 for its first Philadelphia-area rehabilitation hospital on the site of the former Concordville Inn, writes John George for Philadelphia Business Journal.
The $57.8 Concordville hospital at 780 Baltimore Pike will start offering patient care on May 5. It will employ 130 workers to start, growing to 200 when the hospital is at capacity.
The two-story hospital includes 50 private patient rooms, two therapy gyms, an in-house dialysis suite, an in-house pharmacy, a therapy courtyard, and a dining room.
The hospital will help patients regain function and independence from strokes, brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, amputations, and complex orthopedic conditions.
“We have some technology for high-intensity gait training, which is a really big thing in neuro-rehab right now,” said the Concordville Hospital CEO, Lauren Grieder. “We also have some advanced equipment for our speech therapists.”
The hospital sits on a property dating back to 1777. It was the former location of the Concordville Inn Bar & Grille and Event Center, demolished in 2023.
A second rehabilitation hospital from Encompass will open in mid-September in Lower Providence.
Encompass Health, out of Birmingham, Alabama, operates 173 medical centers nationwide.
Read more about Encompass Health and why they chose Concordville as a hospital location in the Philadelphia Business Journal.
