Development Matters
Development Matters
and the Penn Musculoskeletal Institute, the building will feature a convenient array of streamlined, integrated outpatient services for patients across the Greater Philadelphia region. The state-of-the-art building will feature more than 150,000 square feet of outpatient care and surgical space and include nearly 110 exam rooms, six outpatient operating rooms, and an outpatient radiology center. With multiple departments under the same roof, physicians will be better able to deliver complementary services — often in the same visit.
PPMC’s Pavilion for Advanced Care, to be located at 38th Street and Powelton Avenue.
PAVILION FOR ADVANCED CARE: More Technology, More Capacity, Better Outcomes Next year, Penn Presbyterian’s Pavilion for Advanced Care will become the new home of Penn Medicine’s expanded surgical critical care and Regional Resource Level I Trauma Center. This new 178,000-square-foot building will deliver technology upgrades, improve access, and offer significantly increased capacity for emergency, surgical, and critical care patients.
Penn Presbyterian is well known for providing outstanding “specialty care coordinated with excellent, comprehensive primary care — and training our future physicians to be compassionate, driven leaders in the field. These welcoming new facilities will enhance our ability to deliver exceptional medical care, accelerate clinical research, and, importantly,
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add many layers of convenience for our patients.
— Jack Ende, M.D., Former Chief of Medicine, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center Assistant Vice President, University of Pennsylvania Health System Assistant Dean, Perelman School of Medicine Schaeffer Professor in Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
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Minutes matter in an emergency. The Pavilion’s design creates a “nucleus of care” that allows patients to shift seamlessly from one stage of care to the next, and critically injured patients will be evaluated and stabilized in a new high-technology trauma resuscitation area. In addition, the 20-bed critical-care unit will improve care for critically ill medical cardiac patients, as well as postoperative cardiac surgical patients, by facilitating even closer interactions between medical, surgical, and critical-care specialists.
GIVING INFORMATION You can join us in our drive to enhance medical education, research, and patient care by supporting any or all of these exciting projects. To learn more or to make a gift today, visit PennMedicine.org/ giving, call (215) 898-0578, or send your check made out to the “Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania” to: Penn Medicine Development & Alumni Relations 3535 Market St., Suite 750, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3309