Will You Have to go to Lankenau for Cardiac Surgery?

When it comes to serious heart issues, those in the health care industry say "time is tissue."

While Bryn Mawr Hospital is working on allowing heart attack patients to bypass the Emergency Room because time is such an important issue, it is considering moving its cardiac surgical procedures to Lankenau Hospital in Wynnewood.

“Our clinical and administrative leadership is studying each and every type of cardiac surgical procedure to determine the feasibility of continuing to provide these surgical procedures at the Bryn Mawr Hospital campus and under what circumstances the patient should be transferred to our sister facility, Lankenau Medical Center," reads part of a letter sent to Radnor Township from Bryn Mawr Hospital.

According to Main Line Media News, Radnor Township Commissioner John Nagle said he is concerned about travel time to Lankenau from Radnor Township and about the continued availability of the Emergency Room.

And he's not alone. The newspaper reports that "several Bryn Mawr hospital doctors came forward at the meeting and told the board that they oppose any move to move cardiac surgery from the hospital..."

They spoke at Radnor's Board of Health meeting on Monday, May 20. You can watch that discussion in the video section of this article.

What do you think about the possible move of cardiac procedures to Lankenau?