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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.
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]
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
1743 – Philosophical Society founded; 1744 – Christ Church built; 1745 – New Market built. [9] 1749 – Academy of Philadelphia founded; 1751 Street lighting begins. [9] Pennsylvania Hospital founded; 1753 – Bell hung in tower of State House; 1755 – College of Philadelphia chartered; 1757 – Amicable Library Co. founded. [10] 1766
Thomas Story Kirkbride (July 31, 1809 – December 16, 1883) was a physician, alienist, and hospital superintendent for the Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital, and primary founder of the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane (AMSAII), the organizational precursor to the American Psychiatric Association.
"I think I was only there the first day. Maybe I made it to day two," she added. "We did the read-throughs and they staged it, and then they're like, we better get somebody else."
1775 — Continental Marines founded, Tun Tavern, Philadelphia; now known as U.S. Marine Corps [10] 1777 — First United States Capital, Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was the first capital under the First Continental Congress from September 5, 1774 to October 24, 1774.