Facts

1996-97

The University of Pennsylvania Health System

Established in 1993. Comprises the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center (the School of Medicine and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania); Presbyterian Medical Center; Clinical Care Associates, a primary care provider network; hospitals that are contractual affiliates; New Ralston House, one of several long-term care facilities; and Franklin Physician Services, Inc., a management services organization.
14,002 Health System employees.
Total budgeted revenue for fiscal year 1996: $1.27 billion.

The Medical Center

Comprises the School of Medicine and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP); incorporated in the School of Medicine are the Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania.
11,404 employees.
New departments, centers, and institutes: Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine, Center for Bioethics, Center for Experimental Therapeutics, F.M. Kirby Center for Molecular Ophthalmology, Institute for Human Gene Therapy, Institute for Medicine and Engineering, Center for Research on Reproduction and Women's Health.
Known for multidisciplinary units. Of long-standing: Johnson Foundation for Molecular Biophysics (1929), David J. Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences (1953), Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics (1967), University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center (1973), one of 26 comprehensive cancer centers nationwide as designated by the National Cancer Institute.
Heritage: School of Medicine founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school. First graduates: 1768. First African-American graduate: 1882. First female graduate: 1917.
In 1874 established the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania as the first university teaching hospital built expressly for that purpose.
Received $36.4 million in pledges from private sources in fiscal year 1995: $9.9 million from alumni and friends and $26.5 million from corporations, foundations, and associations.
Sampling of biomedical achievements in this century: development of parenteral nutrition; pioneering of computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET) scanning; discovery of the Philadelphia Chromosome, the first defective chromosome linked to cancer; development of cognitive therapy; development of the Pennsylvania Peel to cure life-threatening arrhythmias; pioneering of human in-vitro fertilization and endoscopic surgery; discovery of the genes for fragile X syndrome, Kennedy's disease, and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease; and pioneering clinical applications of gene therapy, including report of the first successful gene therapy experiment in humans (familial hyper- cholesterolemia).

The School of Medicine

Education

1,062 full-time faculty.
1,110 interns, residents, and fellows (774 at HUP, including the Scheie Eye Institute, 261 at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and 75 at Presbyterian Medical Center).
690 medical students.
Class of 1999: 151, chosen from 8,927 applications from 25 states and 57 colleges; 61% men, 39% women; 17% from minority groups (11% African-American, 5% Mexican-American, 2% mainland Puerto Rican). Majors represented: science, 64%; non-science 36%. Advanced degrees: Master's, 7; Ph.D., 3. Combined degree candidates: 39. M.D./Ph.D. candidates: 38. M.D./M.B.A. candidates: 1. Age range of applicants: 20-30; mean age of applicants: 23. Mean GPA: 3.63.
72% of all students receive financial aid.
Twenty-First Century Endowed Scholars Fund established to eventually provide full tuition for all of the School's medical students.
Office of International Medical Programs: Affiliations with more than 25 medical centers worldwide, promoting collaborative academic programs and exchanges for both faculty and students.
Biomedical Graduate Studies:
- Ph.D. training programs in: biochemistry, structural biology and molecular biophysics, cell biology, comparative medical sciences, epidemiology and biostatistics, immunology, microbiology and genetics, molecular biology, neurosciences, parasitology, pathology, pharmacological sciences, and physiology, as well as bioengineering and biology as affiliate programs.
- 360 full-time doctoral students, who are generally awarded financial support for the anticipated five years required, on average, to attain the degree of Ph.D.
- 119 biomedical graduate students enrolled in combined degree programs (M.D./ Ph.D., 105; V.M.D./Ph.D.,14).

Research

1,483 sponsored research awards, totaling $174.5 million.
$126.1 million in total National Institutes of Health (NIH) support, ranking sixth nationally. Three departments ranked first: physiology, radiology, and radiation oncology.
$8.37 million in NIH training grants, ranking third among U.S. medical schools.
Awarded 17 patents last year.
597,818 net square feet of research space.
Stellar-Chance Laboratories (opened in 1994), a state-of-the-art, biomedical research building.
Multidisciplinary research programs with major emphases in: aging, behavioral disorders, biomedical imaging, cancer, computer technology, developmental biology, diabetes, genome mapping (chromosome 22), gene therapy, health services research, immunology, molecular genetics, neurosciences, pharmacology, retrovirology, and structural biology.
Major research facility of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP)

725 licensed patient beds (624 adult medical/surgical and obstetrical, including medical and surgical intensive care units and a critical care unit; 46 psychiatric; 24 rehabilitation; and 31 intensive care and intermediate care nurseries); 47 newborn bassinets.
Occupancy rate: 81.75%.
13 interconnected buildings on approximately 6.3 acres.
The Jonathan Evans Rhoads Pavilion, a newly constructed 136-bed patient care building.
5,771 employees.
131 physicians named in The Best Doctors in America.
1,080 nurses.
30,464 patient admissions.
538,767 outpatient visits.
57,094 Emergency Room visits.
$89 million in charitable care for fiscal year 1995.
PennSTAR, a critical-care air medical ambulance; a regional resource executing more than 900 flights per year.
Only Philadelphia-area hospital that performs transplants of all major organs.
University of Pennsylvania Cancer Network, comprising 20 community hospitals.
17 clinical departments with more than 40 clinical specialties provide a comprehensive range of inpatient and outpatient services, including highly specialized tertiary and quaternary levels of care in more than 150 specialty programs.
General Clinical Research Center, one of the nation's first, conducts clinical trials in a controlled environment. Major areas of investigation: AIDS; cardiovascular system; chronobiology; dental medicine; dermatology; endocrinology; gene therapy; metabolism; neurology; oncology; psychiatry; and women and minority health concerns

Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania (CPUP)

Physician-faculty practice plan of the Medical Center. Established in 1977.
19 practice plans comprising 583 physicians, 98% of whom are board-certified in their specialties or eligible for specialty certification.

Presbyterian Medical Center

344 licensed beds.
12 buildings on 16.5 acres.
1,988 employees.
334 physicians.
363 nurses.
12,468 patient admissions.
133,712 outpatient visits.
25,977 Emergency Room visits.
$10 million in charitable care for fiscal year 1995.

Satellites and Other Facilities

Penn Medicine at King of Prussia, a suburban location offering the following services and specialty programs: dermatology; gynecology and obstetrics; infertility and reproductive endocrinology; laboratory and radiology; lipid evaluation center; neurology and neurosurgery consultations; oral and maxillofacial surgery; orthopaedic surgery; plastic surgery consultations; pre-operative exams, pulmonary medicine; and surgical oncology evaluations.
Long-term care facilities: New Ralston House (124 beds); the Presbyterian Center for Continuing Care (20 beds).
Home health care: Penn HomeIT, an infusion therapy program, caring for more than 300 patients each day; Presbyterian Home Care.

Clinical Care Associates

Primary care provider network with more than 130 physicians in practices located throughout Philadelphia, Montgomery, Chester, Delaware, and Bucks counties, and southern New Jersey.
338,968 outpatient visits in fiscal year 1995.

Franklin Physician Services, Inc.

A management service organization that offers practice management services to area physicians.
Provides: managed care contracting; managed care participation and performance evaluation; practice assessments; comprehensive financial management including management information systems; group purchasing; strategic business planning; group practice formation; and comprehensive practice management.

Contractually Affiliated Hospitals

Germantown Hospital and Medical Center (250 licensed beds, 309 physicians); Phoenixville Hospital (125 licensed beds, 140 physicians); Taylor Hospital (213 licensed beds, 280 physicians).

Trustee Board Officers

Susan W. Catherwood (Chairman)

John G. Harkins Jr., Esq. (Vice Chairman; Chairman, School of Medicine Board of Overseers)

Myles H. Tanenbaum, Esq. (Vice Chairman; Chairman, Board of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Board of Presbyterian Medical Center of UPHS)

Robert E. Cawthorn (Chairman, Board of Clinical Care Associates) Raymond H. Welsh (Chairman, Board of Franklin Physician Services, Inc.)

Administration

William N. Kelley, M.D.
C.E.O., University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and Health System; Executive Vice President, University of Pennsylvania; Dean, School of Medicine

Gordon D. Williams
Senior Vice President for Academic and Clinical Affairs, Health System; Vice President, Medical Center; Vice Dean, Administration

William T. Foley
Senior Vice President for Hospital Services, Health System

John C. S. Kepner, Esq.
Senior Vice President for Network Development, Health System; Executive Director of Clinical Care Associates

John P. Wynne Jr.
Senior Vice President for Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, Health System

Arthur K. Asbury, M.D.
Vice Dean, Faculty Affairs

Gail Morrison, M.D.
Vice Dean, Education

Richard L. Tannen, M.D.
Vice Dean, Research and Research Training

Mark A. Kelley, M.D.
Vice Dean, Clinical Affairs