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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 ...
Philadelphia portal; Thomas Bond (May 2, 1713 – March 26, 1784) was an American physician and surgeon. [1] In 1751 he co-founded the Pennsylvania Hospital, the first medical facility in the American colonies, with Benjamin Franklin, and also volunteered his services there as both physician and teacher.
Defunct public hospital. It was originally named the Hospital of Saint John or L’Hôpital des Pauvres de la Charité (The Charity Hospital for the Poor). Charity Hospital sustained severe flood damage during Hurricane Katrina and was closed. [2] 1751 Pennsylvania Hospital: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
In 1751, Franklin and Thomas Bond obtained a charter from the Pennsylvania legislature to establish a hospital. Pennsylvania Hospital was the first hospital in the colonies. [77] In 1752, Franklin organized the Philadelphia Contributionship, the Colonies' first homeowner's insurance company. [78] [79]
[15] [17] Additional contributions were given to fund the Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Pediatric Research Center in the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, [18] professorships and chairs in the University of Pennsylvania and in Johns Hopkins' medical schools, [19] [20] and to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. [21]
The hospital was founded in 1897 by nuns from Philadelphia. They treated 115 patients in the first year, “many of whom were loggers, ranchers, and gold miners,” according to a document ...
Gateway hosts an annual gala to raise funds for cancer research; in 2019 it raised $4.2 million. [8] The funds raised at the event went to support Phase I and Phase II clinical trials for all cancer types. [9] In 1993, Stephenson founded Assistance in Healthcare (AIH). AIH provides financial support to patients undergoing active cancer treatment.
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