Your Life is Worth Penn Medicine!
University of Pennsylvania Health System | Penn Medicine
Today at Penn Medicine, someone will make a breakthrough. Someone will heal a heart, deliver hopeful news, give comfort and reassurance. Today, a Penn physician, scientist, nurse, technician or social worker will find another way to heal or help, unlock medical science that can give the gift of more time and change the course of human life.
Penn Medicine is a world-renowned academic medical center dedicated to discoveries that advance science, to outstanding patient care throughout the world, and to the education of physicians and scientists who carry on our legacy of excellence.
Our combined missions of research, education, clinical care and community service improve health and well-being. We are proud of our commitment to service and strive to use discovery and rigorous research to benefit our neighborhoods, our city and our world. We embrace the opportunity to teach others, to learn from our partners, and to care for patients will skill and dignity.
Pennsylvania Hospital
Pennsylvania hospital is part of one of the most highly esteemed health systems in the country. Penn Medicine has been awarded several national healthcare quality awards and we seek employees who are engaged and excited by our mission of continued service, excellence and on-going professional development. As the first hospital in the country, Pennsylvania Hospital has invented, and continues to reinvent, hospital practice as we know it. Pennsylvania Hospital is a 520-bed acute care facility that provides a full range of diagnostic and therapeutic medical services and functions as a major teaching and clinical research institution. The hospital was founded in 1751 by Benjamin Franklin and Dr. Thomas Bond to care for the “sick-poor and insane of Philadelphia.”
Pennsylvania Hospital is now known for its general and specialty surgical services, including:
- Orthopedics
- Cardiology
- General Medicine
- Critical Care
- Hematology/Oncology
- Neonatology
- Behavioral health
- Bloodless Medicine
- Emergency Medicine
- Obstetrics program – specializing in high-risk maternal and fetal services
Pennsylvania Hospital also has expanding programs for cancer, cardiac care and surgery. The hospital has over 23,000 inpatient admissions and 87,000 outpatient visits each year, including over 4,800 births.