After it decided not to buy the shuttered Brandywine Hospital campus in Coatesville, the University of Pennsylvania Health System is looking for another property in Chester County as part of a Department of Veterans Affairs initiative, writes John George for the Philadelphia Business Journal.

“We have three properties we are looking at,” said Kevin Mahoney, CEO of the Penn Health System. “We need 60 acres.”

Mahoney did not pinpoint where exactly the health system is searching out of fear of raising the purchase price.

He did say that the Penn Health System plans to “reimagine” care for veterans. It wants to work with the VA to improve the way medical care is provided to local veterans while also offering outpatient care services to residents who were previously served by Brandywine.

“There’s a brand new VA hospital in Orlando and it’s terrific,” he said. “It’s as good as any civilian hospital. They built it there because more vets now live in the South than in the Northeast, but you can’t abandon the veterans that live in the Northeast.”

Read more about the Penn Health System taking part in a Department of Veterans Affairs initiative in the Philadelphia Business Journal.

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