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The emergency room entrance at Pennsylvania Hospital at 9th and Spruce streets. Pennsylvania Hospital is a private, non-profit, 515-bed teaching hospital located at 800 Spruce Street in Center City Philadelphia, The hospital was founded on May 11, 1751 by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Bond, and was the second established public hospital (first was Bellevue) but had the first surgical ...
In the Philadelphia metro area, HUP/PPMC is ranked #1, Pennsylvania Hospital is ranked #4, and Chester County Hospital is ranked #6. Beyond Philadelphia, Lancaster General Hospital (LGH) is ranked #1 in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania metropolitan area while Princeton Health is ranked #11 in the state of New Jersey.
Metropolitan Hospital Center was founded in September 1875 as the Homeopathic Hospital. [5] It was established by the New York City Department of Public Charities and Correction on Wards Island. The island already had other hospitals dating to at least 1847. [6] [7] The new hospital was soon known as the Ward's Island Homeopathic Hospital. [8]
First hospital of the United States [9] Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: University City, Philadelphia: Teaching: 1871 1995 Houses Penn's departments of Orthopaedics and Ophthalmology, in addition to long-term care and nursing home facilities Chester County Hospital: West Chester, PA: Teaching: 1892 [10] 2013 [10] Lancaster General Hospital ...
In 2004, the former Metropolitan Hospital was converted into a luxury condo complex. [12] 8th Street/Chinatown sign close to the Vine Street Expressway. At one point, the city proposed building an eight lane highway that would divide the Philadelphia Chinatown into two parts and eliminate the Holy Redeemer Church and School.
Pages in category "History of Philadelphia" ... Indians in the Philadelphia metropolitan area; ... Naval Hospital Philadelphia; Naval Square, Philadelphia ...
Philadelphia Athletics win World Series over Chicago Cubs Uptown Theater opens. Rodin Museum dedicated. [48] 1930 – Population: 1,950,961. [48] Pat’s King of Steaks opens. Inventor/originator of cheese steaks; Philadelphia Athletics win World Series over St Louis Cardinals; 1931 Municipal Auditorium opens. [48] Girard Trust Building constructed
History of Britain's Hospitals (2005) excerpt and text search; Cherry, Stephen. Medical Services and the Hospital in Britain, 1860–1939 (1996) excerpt and text search; Gorsky, Martin. "The British National Health Service 1948–2008: A Review of the Historiography," Social History of Medicine, Dec 2008, Vol. 21 Issue 3, pp. 437–460