The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is located near the University of Pennsylvania and is the first hospital in the U.S. to be solely dedicated to providing health care specifically for children. Over the years, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has been ranked among the top specialty hospitals in America. It has more than 500 beds, and nearly half of them are reserved for neonatal care, cardiac care and pediatric intensive care. Every year, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia admits nearly 30,000 children as inpatients and sees more than 1 million children in the ER and outpatient wards (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Annual Report, 2016).
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has played an important role in the community of Philadelphia since its inception in 1855. There were almost half a million people in Philadelphia at the time. Diseases like typhoid, small pox and scarlet fever were very dangerous and in one month in 1855, hundreds of children died from these diseases. One doctor decided there and then to establish the country’s very first hospital solely for children. His name was Dr. Francis West Lewis and he had the idea for a hospital like this because he had been to England and seen London’s Children’s Hospital. He decided to do the same in his city and he attracted some of his fellow doctors to help get the facility going (Bell, 2015). The first hospital had 12 beds and in its first year, it saw hundreds of patients. The second hospital was erected a decade later following the end of the Civil War. It tripled the number of beds of the first hospital and expanded its services. By the end of the century, it had nearly 100 beds and a nursing school to boot (“About the History of Children’s Hospital,” 2017).
The third hospital was erected in 1916 and lasted for nearly sixty years. This time, the...
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About the History of Children’s Hospital. (2017). CHOP. Retrieved from http://www.chop.edu/about-us/about
Bell, M. (2015). The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing.
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Annual Report. (2016). CHOP. Retrieved from http://ar.chop.edu/
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