- Graduate Hospital
Graduate Hospital was a hospital in the Southwest Center City neighborhood of
Philadelphia , founded in 1916 and repurposed in 2007. [ [http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/colleges/penn/5334246.html Sale in 2007 with brief history] ] Medical care began on the site in 1889 under the name Philadelphia Polyclinic. Currently, the site is being converted into a rehabilitation and long-term acute-care facility. The current facility is owned byUniversity of Pennsylvania Health System [ [http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/jan07/graduate-hospital-purchase.htm Graduate hospital purchase] ] and operated in a partnership with theGood Shepherd Rehabilitation Network called "Good Shepherd Penn Partners." [ [http://www.goodshepherdrehab.org/news-events/press-releases/release-01-23-07.asp] Good Shepherd press release ]In local parlance, the name Graduate Hospital also refers to the neighborhood where it is situated.
History
The origins of the hospital are with the Philadelphia Polyclinic, founded in 1889 in the area of 20th and South streets in Philadelphia. In 1916 the
University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Medicine established Graduate Hospital as a clinical teaching facility. After losing money for several years, Penn spun-off Graduate as an independent, non-profit hospital in 1977. In 1996, Graduate became part of theAllegheny Health System based in Pittsburgh. When Allegheny went bankrupt in 1998, the hospital was acquired byTenet Healthcare . Tenet had financial trouble in 2005, [ [http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/314788/philadelphias_graduate_hospital_enters_unusual_arrangement_with_competitor/ Tenet troubles in 2005] ] and in 2006 it sought to sell this and two other Philadelphia hospitals. UPHS finalized the deal in 2007, closed the facility as a full-service hospital, and began the conversion to a specialty medical facility.Current situation
An urgent care practice is temporarily operating on the first floor of the Tuttleman building on the Graduate Hospital site. Two new specialty hospitals are currently being built.
* "Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital -- Philadelphia" will be a 38-bed long-term acute care hospital.
* The "Penn Institute for Rehabilitation Medicine" will be a 58-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility.References
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