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THE HIGHEST QUALITY CARE, WHEN AND WHERE YOU NEED IT.
Brandywine Hospital is dedicated to Advancing Health and Transforming Lives by providing life- changing care for our communities. From award- winning cardiac services in our Accredited Chest Pain Center to knee and hip replacements — we’ll never stop advancing for you.
Discover more at Brandywine.TowerHealth.org.
Aventura at Pembrooke is a skilled nursing facility that offers short-term rehabilitation, wound care, stroke recovery and long-term care in West Chester.
The Hickman Friends Senior Living Community of West Chester, founded in 1891, is a non-profit, personal care community that provides affordable housing and services at individual levels of need, from independent living to memory care.
Healthcare Firms
The county’s convenient location, proximity to a metropolitan area and its highly educated talent pool make it an attractive place for companies to call home.
Genesis HealthCare, which operates nearly 400 skilled nursing, rehabilitation and senior living facilities in 26 states, has its headquarters in Kennett Square, where it launched in 1985 in a former dry goods and furniture store. Today, it employs hundreds at this headquarters location.
Genesis also operates four facilities in the county. Its newest is a PowerBack Rehabilitation Center in Exton. This center features 120 private suites, a gym, spa services, movie theater and seven-day rehabilitation sessions. The other Genesis facilities are Paoli Point, Brandywine Hall in West Chester and PowerBack Rehabilitation in Phoenixville.
Janssen Biotech, a pharmaceutical company in Malvern, also has a large presence in Chester County. The global firm, part of Johnson & Johnson, employs 1,200 people. Its primary product at the Malvern facility is the prescription drug Remicade®. The Malvern operation also includes a research and development division and a cell banking center.
Endo International is a generics and specialty pharmaceutical company with its U.S. headquarters in Malvern. The Irish company began operations in 1997 by acquiring products, related rights and assets from The DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Company. Since then, Endo has grown steadily with about 3,000 employees worldwide.
Independence Blue Cross serves more than 2.5 million people in southeastern Pennsylvania as the largest health insurance provider in the greater Philadelphia area. The 80-year-old company provides medical coverage, administrative services and specialty programs
in 25 states and the District of Columbia. The Philadelphia Inquirer named Independence Blue Cross as a Top Workplace for 2019 based on employee surveys.
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