2015
C E L E B R AT I N G 2 5 0 Y E A R S OF THE PERELMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
HEALING THROUGHOUT HISTORY “You will be in a condition to practice the healing arts
Penn Medicine is among the most prestigious academic medical institutions in the world. Its international prominence is built on a tradition of innovation, excellence, and compassion. The 2014-2015 academic year marks an auspicious milestone in the history of the Perelman School of Medicine: its 250th anniversary. Together, thousands of exceptional educators, scientists, and physicians have instilled the passion in Penn medical students that founder John Morgan called for in 1765. They have altered the lives and futures of innumerable patients who have benefited from their skill and fortitude.
with skill and reputation, and to transmit your knowledge, and the benefits thereof, to a succession of others.” - John Morgan, “Discourse Upon the Institution of Medical Schools in America,” 1765
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PENN MEDICINE IS
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ED U CATI O N
PATIENT CARE
Established in 1765 as the nation’s first medical school, the Perelman School of Medicine is celebrating its 250th anniversary this year. The School has ranked among the top five medical schools in the United States for the past 17 years, according to U.S. News & World Report’s survey of researchoriented medical schools. Penn Medicine continues to provide its students with an innovative, comprehensive curriculum that prepares them to become leading physicians and scientists in a broad array of fields.
Penn Medicine’s physicians, nurses, and staff provide exceptional, personalized care to patients with a wide range of medical conditions, including cancer, heart and lung disease, neurological disorders, diseases of aging, and orthopaedics, as well as care for newborns. With state-of-the-art equipment, our highly trained physicians work together to ensure that patients’ needs are addressed from multiple perspectives, involving a team of disease specialists, pharmacists, social workers, and rehabilitation professionals.
THE RAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH SYSTEM.
ANNUAL OPERATING $4.9 BILLION REVENUE NATIONAL $409 MILLION INSTITUTES OF HEALTH AWARDS
TOTAL SPONSORED $638 MILLION PROGRAM AWARDS
Penn Medicine is consistently among the nation’s top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health. Penn’s physicians and scientists take an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the fundamental mechanisms of disease, which leads to new strategies for treatments. Faculty from dozens of institutes, centers, and departments at Penn Medicine work with their colleagues from the 11 other schools of the University of Pennsylvania in many areas, including bioengineering and health policy.
STATE $2.8 MILLLION RESEARCH FUNDING
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CLINICAL FACILITIES
The Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine (PCAM)
AND PROGRAMS
is a state-of-the-art outpatient facility, with diagnostic and treatment facilities designed to be in close proximity for patient-focused care.
PENN MEDICINE INCLUDES FOUR HOSPITALS AND
The Abramson Cancer Center (ACC) has more than
HUNDREDS OF OUTPATIENT CENTERS THROUGHOUT THE REGION, COMBINING FOR A TOTAL OF 6.7-MILLION SQUARE FEET IN FACILITY SPACE.
hospital of the university of pennsylvania (HUP) is annually recognized as one of the nation’s best by the US News & World Report in its Honor Roll of best hospitals. The 1.9 million-square-foot complex consists of 16 interconnecting buildings and is a busy inpatient hub for cancer, neurosurgery, cardiology care, and many other specialties.
Pennsylvania Hospital (PAH) Pennsylvania Hospital is the nation’s first hospital, cofounded by Benjamin Franklin in 1751. Today its many outstanding clinical programs include the Spine Center, the Center for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery, maternity care, and Penn Medicine Washington Square. It is a 1.1 million-square-foot campus spread over 15 buildings.
100,000 outpatient visits each year and more than 23,000 participants enrolled in clinical trials. Since 1973, it has been designated a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute, one of 41 such centers in the nation.
The Roberts Proton Therapy Center, the largest
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (PPMC) is consistently recognized as a center of excellence for cardiac care, ophthalmology, and the Musculoskeletal Center located at the new Penn Medicine University City. Its 617,900-square-foot campus is spread over 10 buildings.
Chester County Hospital (CCH), the newest entity of Penn Medicine, includes a 537,520 squarefoot hospital complex in West Chester and satellite locations in Exton, West Goshen, New Garden, Jennersville, and Kennett Square.
integrated radiation oncology center in the world, uses beams of protons traveling nearly at light speed to eradicate tumors and spare healthy surrounding tissue, eliminating many side effects of conventional cancer therapies.
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NEW BUILDINGS
Penn Medicine Rittenhouse
on the penn Medicine Campus
includes a rehabilitation facility, a long-term acute-care specialty hospital, and an inpatient hospice.
Good Shepherd Penn Partners offers rehabilitation and outpatient care at 29 comprehensive facilities in southeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, including a specialty hospital at Penn Medicine Rittenhouse.
Penn Home Care & Hospice Services offers a full range of home health needs through Penn Wissahickon Hospice, Penn Care at Home, and Penn Home Infusion Therapy.
Penn Medicine Community Practices are located in Valley Forge, Radnor, Bucks County, Cherry Hill, and Woodbury Heights.
The Clinical Care Associates and Clinical Health Care Associates of New Jersey are networks of primary and specialty care physicians, with more than 50 locations throughout the Philadelphia region.
$144
MILLION
PAV I L I O N F O R A DVA N C E D C A R E AT P E N N P R E S BY T E R I A N
WINTER 2015
$38
MILLION
H E N RY A . J O R DA N M ’6 2 M E D I C A L E D U C AT I O N C E N T E R
WINTER 2015
Licensed Beds
1,893 — PENN MEDICINE TOTAL
496 PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL
331
PENN PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER
789
HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
$20
MILLION
C E N T E R F O R A DVA N C E D CELLU LAR TH ERAPEUTIC S
2016
277
CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL
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R E S E ARCH Penn Medicine is an internationally recognized leader in discoveries that advance science. Sixty-seven Penn Medicine researchers are Members of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors in medicine. The basic and clinical research findings emerging from Penn Medicine’s laboratories and hospitals improve the treatment of a wide range of medical conditions and provide the foundation on which the next generation of cures will be developed. The culture and campus of the University of Pennsylvania have always encouraged close collaboration between basic scientists and clinicians, exemplified by its dozens of interdisciplinary clinical and research institutes, centers, and programs.
Patents & Philanthropy
75 $30
NEW PATENTS AWARDED IN FY14 MILLION
INDUSTRY-SPONSORED RESEARCH FUNDING
$157 20,000 MILLION
Collaborative Research By The Numbers
1,400+ STUDENTS & POSTDOCS 5,200+ FACULTY AND STAFF AND CLINICAL 28 BASIC DEPARTMENTS 24 INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTERS AND INSTITUTES
Basic Research highlights • High levels of blood protein after traumatic brain injury correlate with brain tissue damage •
Pluripotent stem cells from pancreatic cancer cells create the first human model of progression of this cancer
IN PHILANTHROPIC GIFTS
• Lost sleep leads to lost brain cells
DONORS
• Brown fat cell nucleus governs daily control of body temperature •
Mapping 24-hour patterns of gene expression in 12 mouse organs informs how timing influences the action of drugs
• “Bystander” chronic infections thwart immune cell memory
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Medical & Doctoral Student Profile
ED U CATI O N The Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM) is at the forefront of medical education with an innovative curriculum and integrated approach to learning, using small groups, case-based and teamfocused training, and advanced technology. Students also have the flexibility to combine their medical education with master’s and doctoral degrees, specialty certificates, and global health and community service. The 2.4-million-square-foot campus of PSOM consists of 10 buildings plus 27 sites in and around West Philadelphia.
Medical and Dual Degree Programs
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MD STUDENTS ENROLLED IN THE PERELMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE MD STUDENTS IN MD/PHD PROGRAMS
PHD STUDENTS IN BIOMEDICAL GRADUATE STUDIES
Conduct community service or outreach
70%
Author research papers for publication
62%
Complete certificates or additional degrees
65%
Nontraditional students in each entering class
60+
Undergrad schools represented in each entering class
A NEW ERA IN MEDICAL EDUCATION THE DESIGN OF THE HENRY A. JORDAN M ’62 MEDICAL EDUCATION CENTER BRINGS A UNIQUE AND INNOVATIVE VISION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION TO THE PENN CAMPUS. IT IS THE NATION’S FIRST FULLY INTERGRATED PATIENT CARE, RESEARCH, AND MEDICAL EDUCATION FACILITY.
600
Faculty members in seven Penn schools teach in the Biomedical Graduate Studies program
15+
Specialties in the Biomedical Graduate Studies program
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PATI ENT CAR E The University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) comprises the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP), Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (PPMC), Pennsylvania Hospital (PAH), and Chester County Hospital (CCH), as well as an alliance with Good Shepherd Penn Partners, a rehabilitation and long-term acute-care hospital at Penn Medicine Rittenhouse and outpatient physical therapy sites across the region. UPHS also includes Penn Home Care and Hospice Service and many outpatient facilities and service programs. Penn Medicine physicians also work in partnership with their colleagues at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia VA Medical Center.
CLINICAL RESEARCH
HIGHLIGHTS Finding and fighting cancer by making it glow
Personalized gene therapy locks out HIV
Improving Patient Care Through Technology
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MILLION
PHYSICIANS’ ELECTRONIC NOTES SEARCHABLE IN PATIENT CARE DATABASE
222,000
PATIENTS ENROLLED IN MYPENNMEDICINE.ORG PATIENT PORTAL
1.73
BILLION
GENETIC SEQUENCE VARIANTS IN RESEARCH DATABASE TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL PATIENTS FOR CLINICAL TRIALS
quality and patient safety
200+
outpatient practices that received patient satisfaction awards
500
phone calls made each month to discharged high-risk patients
1,000+
record for days in a row without central lineassociated bloodstream infections in many hospital units
5,200
employees have completed classroom training on providing a consistent, high-quality experience for patients
US workers sacrifice sleep for long hours and commutes
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NATIONAL & REGIONAL RECOGNITION • HUP/PPMC ranked 7th in the United States, according to the U.S. News & World Report annual “Best Hospitals” survey. • U.S. News & World Report ranked HUP, PPMC, and PAH among the top 10 hospitals in Pennsylvania.
“EXCEPTIONAL” CANCER CARE
• All four Penn Medicine hospitals received the American Heart Association/ American Stroke Association’s “Get With the Guidelines” Silver Plus Achievement Award, for the highest standard of stroke care.
• 23 Clinical Care Associates practices received the highest designation from the National Committee for Quality Assurance for providing access to more efficient and better coordinated care.
OUTPATIENT VISITS EMERGENCY DEPT. VISITS BIRTHS EMPLOYEES
Chemotherapy treatments
Conventional radiation treatments
14,000+
Treatments in the Roberts Proton Therapy Center
• Penn Medicine again had the most physicians in the region featured on Philadelphia magazine’s “Top Docs” list.
ADULT ADMISSIONS
63,000+ 101,000+
• PPMC again was recognized as one of the top 100 hospitals • The Perelman School of in the US by Truven Health Medicine is ranked among the Analytics. top five medical schools in the country by U.S. News & World Report.
PHYSICIANS
Each year Penn Medicine delivers:
Since 1999
2,000+
Cellular vaccines administered to more than 700 patients
HUP
PPMC
PAH
CCH
PSOM
PENN MEDICINE TOTAL†
1,871 36,737 1,515,612 63,565 4,221 6,714
1,001 14,634 151,950 38,048 n/a 1,812
837 19,854 159,481 34,390 4,708 2,628
550 12,769 497,609 43,240 2,121 2,046
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 5,290#
2,846* 83,994 2,837,864+ 179,243 11,050 24,293@
KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS USED IN GRAPHS: CCA: Clinical Care Associates CCH: Chester County Hospital CHCA: Clinical Health Care Associates CHOP: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia CPUP: Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania HCHS: Home Care and Hospice Services HUP: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania PPMC: Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
* Includes physicians with privileges at more than one hospital + Includes CCA/CHCA
† Includes UPHS and PSOM # Includes staff and full-time faculty, with CHOP @ Includes CCA, CORP, CPUP, HCHS
PAH: Pennsylvania Hospital PSOM: Perelman School of Medicine
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A TRADITION OF GLOBAL AND LOCAL ENGAGEMENT Penn Medicine’s programs and projects extend beyond our institution to serve vulnerable populations in our surrounding Philadelphia community and to those in need around the world. Penn faculty are researching diseases, educating students, and treating patients in hospitals and mobile clinics, in partnership with institutions in Botswana, Guatemala, and Peru, and with many other international groups. Our community also comes together to support humanitarian and medical relief efforts across the globe, including aid to Ebolastricken nations in West Africa.
In collaboration with the University, Penn Medicine continues the 14-year-old PennBotswana Partnership, with its focus on HIV/AIDS, cervical cancer, heart disease, educating local health care workers, and telemedicine. The GuatemalaPenn Partnership offers students a variety of training opportunities as well. The PennUniversidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia partnership offers students clerkships in internal medicine, infectious diseases, and tropical medicine.
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AIDING THE COMMUNITY FROM WITHIN Improving the health of people living throughout the Philadelphia area is among Penn Medicine’s highest priorities. Every day, physicians, nurses, medical students, and staff volunteer their knowledge, skills, and time to benefit residents in our community. They operate free neighborhood clinics, help low-income residents obtain primary care, and run after-school programs for grade school students, among many other efforts.
Giving Back
$132 MILLION CHARITY AND
UNDERFUNDED CARE FOR MEDICAID FAMILIES
Penn Medicine’s CAREs grant program supports faculty, student, and staff efforts to increase volunteerism in community-based programs. Since the program was established in 2012, CAREs has provided grants to nearly 120 initiatives throughout the region, including dental care for uninsured people, a free health clinic operated by medical students, Reiki therapy training for hospice workers, and many others.
PENN’S WAY $1.5 MILLION CAMPUS-WIDE CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION TOTAL ($826,000 UPHS CONTRIBUTIONS)
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
In the Neighborhoods
$6.5
BILLION total economic impact on PA
$3.7
BILLION total economic impact on the Philadelphia area
HIV/AIDS Mobile Unit: Taking AIDS prevention education and testing to the streets
A Broad IMPACT
Educating Tomorrow’s Scientists: Conducting summer and after-school programs for girls to learn about reproductive biology and science careers
$860
MILLION total economic impact in NJ
39,000
Full-time jobs in 2013 in PA
NJ
PA PHILADELPHIA AREA
Sayre High School Partnership: Operating a community health clinic and teaching students to become medical assistants Soup Kitchen Health Talks: Clinicians giving health education talks after dinners at the Old St. Joseph’s Church soup kitchen
Funding Jobs & Innovation
RESEARCH $557 MILLION SUPPORT
$82 MILLION PHYSICIAN TRAINING SUPPORT
Puentes de Salud: Providing diverse health and educational programing for recent Latino/ Latina immigrants of all ages
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.
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