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The main entrance to Thomas Jefferson Hospital at 111 S. 11th Street in Center City, Philadelphia. Thomas Jefferson University Hospital is the flagship hospital of Jefferson Health, a multi-state non-profit health system based in Philadelphia. The hospital serves as the teaching hospital for Thomas Jefferson University.
As of July 2018, there were 249 state licensed hospitals and VA hospital facilities in Pennsylvania. 148 of these facilities were non-profit, 86 were for-profit or "investor-owned", and 15 were public hospitals owned by the Federal government, state government, or in one case, the city of Philadelphia. [1]
Methodist Hospital was founded by Dr. Scott Stewart, a Methodist physician in Philadelphia, who dedicated $250,000 in his will to assist in building the hospital and a nursing school. The hospital was incorporated in 1881 and ground was broken in 1888. The hospital and nursing school opened in 1892 as Methodist Episcopal Hospital.
Wills Hospital (1897), 18th & South Logan Square, Philadelphia, PA. Now site of The Logan Hotel. James Wills Jr., a Quaker merchant, was instrumental in the founding of Wills Eye through his bequest of $116,000 in 1832 to the City of Philadelphia. Wills stipulated that the funds were to be used specifically for the indigent, blind, and lame.
Temple University Hospital (TUH) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is an academic medical center in the United States which is a part of the healthcare network Temple Health.It is the chief clinical training site for the Temple University School of Medicine.
It officially opened in 1866, starting with 22 beds at 56th and Haverford Road in West Philadelphia. The hospital expanded, moving to Old York Road in 1873, and opening various homes and clinics. By the 20th century, Jewish-sponsored hospitals such as the Jewish Hospital became havens for Jewish doctors who could not admit their patients to ...
District Council 47 of The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees represents more than 3,000 unionized workers for the city, who negotiated remote-work arrangements beginning ...
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.