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FACTS & FIGURES 2021 Compassion, Commitment, & Change Makers

Penn Medicine is powered by a talented and dedicated workforce, all committed to our mission of providing the best care of patients across our region. We also have alliances with top community health systems across Southeastern Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey, creating more options for patients no matter where they live.

Penn Medicine includes six acute-care hospitals and hundreds of outpatient locations throughout the region, as well as educational facilities at the Perelman School of Medicine.

THE HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

is Penn Medicine’s largest hospital. HUP is a busy inpatient hub for cancer, neurosciences, cardiac care, and many other specialties. It is also the oldest university-owned teaching hospital in the country.

PENN PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER

is a renowned center for cardiac care and ophthalmology. Its campus includes the Musculoskeletal Center’s outpatient facility at Penn Medicine University City and the Pavilion for Advanced Care, home to Penn Medicine's first Level 1 Regional Resource Trauma Center.

PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL

is the nation’s first hospital, cofounded by Benjamin Franklin in 1751. Today its outstanding clinical programs include the Spine Center, the Center for Transfusion-Free Medicine, maternity and newborn services, and behavioral health. The campus includes Penn Medicine Washington Square, the hospital’s outpatient facility.

CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL

is a hospital complex in West Chester specializing in heart and vascular care, cancer, orthopaedics, and women’s health. With satellite locations in Exton, West Goshen, New Garden, Jennersville, Kennett Square, and West Grove, the hospital is the largest in Chester County, with a 250,000-square-foot expansion which opened in 2020.

LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH

includes the Lancaster General Hospital, the Women & Babies Hospital, and a Level 1 Trauma Center, newly accredited in 2020. It also includes a network of more than 60 outpatient facilities and physician practices in Lancaster, Chester, and Lebanon counties.

PENN MEDICINE PRINCETON HEALTH

joined Penn Medicine in 2018 and is among the most comprehensive health care systems in New Jersey, including facilities offering acute-care hospital services, behavioral healthcare, ambulatory surgery, and wellness services.

THE PERELMAN CENTER FOR ADVANCED MEDICINE is a state-of-the-art outpatient facility. PCAM has diagnostic and treatment facilities for cancer, neurological, and cardiac conditions, among other types of specialty care.

PCAM is connected to the Perelman School of Medicine’s JORDAN MEDICAL EDUCATION CENTER and the SMILOW CENTER FOR TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH, which brings basic scientists and physicians together to spark fresh collaborations and quickly translate discoveries to improve patient care.

PENN MEDICINE RITTENHOUSE includes a rehabilitation facility, a long-term acute care specialty hospital, and an inpatient hospice.

GOOD SHEPHERD PENN PARTNERS is the post-acute care provider for Penn Medicine. It provides inpatient and outpatient physical rehabilitation and specialized long-term acute care.

PRINCETON HOUSE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH and LANCASTER BEHAVIORAL HEALTH provide a range of inpatient and outpatient services for patients with mental health, substance abuse, or co-occurring disorders.

PENN MEDICINE AT HOME, which includes Penn Hospice, Penn Home Health, and Penn Home Infusion Therapy, offers a full range of home health needs.

URGENT CARE SOUTH PHILADELPHIA offers fast, convenient care for patients of all ages with minor illnesses and injuries. Patients can walk in seven days a week, including holidays.

Easily accessible care is available throughout the region at Penn Medicine’s multispecialty ambulatory locations. These centers offer convenient access to care across many disciplines, as well as laboratory testing and radiology services.

  • Bucks County
  • Cherry Hill
  • Mount Laurel
  • Radnor
  • Southern Chester County
  • University City
  • Valley Forge
  • Washington Square
  • Woodbury Heights

Penn Medicine Radnor’s new facility opened in 2020, setting the standard for advanced outpatient care. The four-story state-of-the-art outpatient facility was designed along service lines that group together clinicians by type of condition they treat, such as heart and vascular care, to encourage closer collaboration among specialists and easy access when patients need to see multiple providers in one visit.

THE PAVILION

Opening in 2021, the Pavilion rises 17 stories on Penn Medicine’s Philadelphia campus as a hospital built to support the future of medicine. The Pavilion includes advanced operating rooms; telemedicine infrastructure for remote monitoring and consultations; and in-room technology to strengthen communication among patients, families, and care teams.

The Interventional Support Center (ISC), opened in February 2021, marks a new approach in sterile instrument processing (IP), ensuring the supply of clean and sterilized equipment for surgeries and procedures of all kinds. Located in Southwest Philadelphia, the ISC is designed to process instruments from up to 250 surgical cases each day at HUP and PAH, as well as outpatient facilities.

The COVID-19 pandemic reshaped our world and community. In the face of a historic health crisis, faculty and staff demonstrated exceptional courage, compassion, and commitment across every domain of our mission. Our care teams developed innovative ways to support patients both in our hospitals and via telemedicine platforms; ensured extra layers of safety across hospitals and practices; drove research in search of COVID-19 prevention tactics, treatments, and vaccines; and launched new initiatives to support the health needs of employees and patients.

From emergency departments to inpatient units to outpatient clinics across the region, our physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, and other members of the care team put patients first in every setting. We’re leveraging telemedicine, mobile apps, and remote monitoring technologies to provide options that offer patients more convenience and enhance their safety—both when they’re in our facilities and at home.

Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center, designated as a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute since 1973, is a world leader in cancer research, patient care, and education. At the Roberts Proton Therapy Center, the largest integrated radiation oncology center in the world, patients are treated with this highly precise form of radiation, which eradicates tumors while sparing healthy surrounding tissue and eliminating many side effects of conventional radiation treatment. Many Penn physicians also see patients at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center.

Penn Medicine is an internationally recognized leader for discoveries that advance science and patient care. Eighty-three Penn Medicine researchers are members of the National Academy of Medicine, one of the highest honors in medicine. From fundamental and discovery science to clinical research, Penn Medicine's laboratories and hospitals improve care for a wide range of medical conditions and provide the foundation for the next generation of therapies. The culture and campus of the University of Pennsylvania encourages close collaboration between scientists and clinicians, exemplified by its dozens of interdisciplinary clinical and research institutes, centers, and programs.

The Perelman School of Medicine has an international reputation for innovative training programs in areas ranging from leadership to global health. Its groundbreaking curriculum has set a new standard for medical education nationwide and is a model for other academic medical schools. The curriculum is built on a foundation of evidence based medicine and patient-centered care, integrating basic sciences and clinical experience and fostering interdisciplinary teamwork.

The Center for Global Health launched in 2015 to synthesize and expand Penn Medicine’s efforts to improve worldwide health equity. The center’s vision for the future is to build a healthier world by training tomorrow’s leaders, addressing global health disparities, supporting regional centers of engagement in underserved locations, and uniting the Penn global health community through workshops, pilot projects, and seminars.

Despite disruptions in global travel imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the Center for Global Health continued to provide engaging opportunities for a wide array of constituents across Penn's campus.

Penn Medicine is taking action to address all forms of racism and bias within the community. Penn is dedicated to changing the culture and breaking down barriers for not only employees but the patients Penn serves and the community at large.

In July 2020, Penn Medicine launched the Action for Cultural Transformation (ACT), which aims to ensure equity, mitigate bias, and eliminate structural racism at Penn Medicine. The ACT agenda includes widening opportunities for advancement of underrepresented minorities within our school and workforce and addressing the social determinants of health that affect minority patients’ lives. Among the array of efforts underway, we have committed to providing unconscious bias training for our entire workforce by April 1, 2021.

Our commitment to care for people in Pennsylvania and New Jersey extends far beyond the walls of our facilities. Every day, physicians, nurses, medical students, researchers, and staff lend their time, skills, and knowledge to help the communities the health system serves, often as volunteers outside of their work. Penn Medicine’s CAREs grant program supports faculty, students, and staff who volunteer in community-based programs from metropolitan Philadelphia to rural Lancaster and Chester counties to the suburbs and shore communities of New Jersey. Since CAREs was established in 2011, it has provided grants to over 660 service initiatives, including programs in community centers, farmers markets, and places of worship.

Improving health in a meaningful way is at the heart of what drives Penn Medicine. This calling inspires the passion and creativity of an extraordinarily talented and dedicated team of physicians, nurses, faculty, trainees, students, staff, and volunteers. You can see inspiring stories of service in action in the Penn Medicine community impact report at communityimpact.pennmedicine.org.

The Penn Medicine Votes Project helped 4,150 patients and employees register to vote or sign up for a mail ballot. During election week, the group helped over 225 additional patients vote using an emergency absentee ballot.

In an effort to promote healthy eating, Chester County Hospital welcomed the FreshtoYou truck from the Chester County Food bank on its campus during the fall.

Lancaster General Health leads the community coalition Joining Forces for Children which supports child victims of the opioid crisis by providing a Family Advocate to help navigate access to services.

In 2020, Princeton Health launched Mental Health First Aid—a training which gives participants tools to identify individuals who are experiencing mental health or substance use issues and guides them to appropriate professional help.

The all-female Penn Academy for Reproductive Sciences teaches high school students interested in exploring the world of medicine, particularly reproductive science.