A Look Back
Jeanes Hospital’s Early Years
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1. Anna T. Jeanes, the founder of Jeanes Hospital. 2. The original Jeanes Hospital building, dating back to 1928, still houses inpatient rooms on the third floor, but is mostly administrative offices now. 3. J eanes Hospital’s first Medical Staff Executive Council, on the stairs of the Founder’s Building. 4. O riginal artwork of floral designs were turned into ceramic tiles in the
early 1990s, representing donors who helped fund construction of the Patient Care Center. 5. In 1954, little Roxanne became Jeanes Hospital’s first Emergency Department patient when a marble became lodged in her throat. She and her mother Sally still live in the area. 6. This private patient room in the original Jeanes Hospital building is now the President’s office.
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t took two decades for the trustees of Anna T. Jeanes’ will to find a location in the Philadelphia area to erect a hospital that would suitably honor the wishes of its founder. Ultimately, the trustees aptly chose Miss Jeanes’ own property, then called Stapeley Farm, in the Fox Chase neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia. By January 1928, Jeanes Hospital had opened its doors. In the late 1930s, Jeanes Hospital began treating patients with cancer, on its way to becoming a full-service acute-care community hospital. It began emergency services in the 1950s when Roxanne, a one-year-old girl with Down syndrome, became the first Emergency Department patient after a marble became lodged in her throat. 6 The hospital’s first baby was born in 1966, beginning four decades of obstetrics services. The 1980s and 1990s ushered in ongoing growth of Jeanes Hospital’s facilities, starting with the Jeanes Physicians’ Office Building. Later, the Heart & Surgery Center (formerly the Surgery-Rehab Building) was built in 1988, followed by the 1992 construction of a fivestory patient tower, now called the Patient Care Center. It was that expansion that led Jeanes Hospital to affiliate with the Temple University Health System in 1996. The affiliation is what gave the hospital the opportunity to expand into sophisticated surgical programs and progressive diagnostics. The campus’ Cheltenham Friends Meetinghouse, first constructed in 1956 and later relocated in 1987, is now home to community outreach programs and continuing education opportunities for physicians. Community Classroom, the hospital’s seminar series that brings together neighbors and doctors, has called the Meetinghouse home for almost four years.
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