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53-506: It is an area adjacent to the Fitler Square and Rittenhouse Square neighborhoods to the north and Point Breeze to the south, and is home to community service organizations, restaurants, churches, retail establishments, and some light industry. The neighborhood has many nicknames. The Philadelphia Planning Commission refers to it as Southwest Center City . Since the 1980s, it has been often referred to as Graduate Hospital , after

106-478: A dispensary . That year they recorded 67 inpatient admissions and 306 outpatient visits. Children's Hospital was relocated to 22nd Street between Locust and Walnut Sts after the American Civil War . This hospital consisted of 35 beds and a dispensary . The second hospital was the site of the first surgery at CHOP, which was first performed in 1870. In addition, the first resident physician at CHOP

159-542: A 0.5 acre (0.20 ha) public park in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , United States and a surrounding neighborhood of the same name. The square is bounded on the east by 23rd Street, on the west by 24th Street, on the north by Panama Street, and on the south by Pine Street. The neighborhood encompasses much of southwest Center City west of Rittenhouse Square and east of the Schuylkill River . Fitler Square

212-505: A Grizzly Bear and a Ram. The center of the park is dominated by a Victorian-era fountain which flows most of the year. Prior to 2010, this fountain, like many in Philadelphia , flowed fresh water from the main directly into the sewer system. In 2010, the Fitler Square Improvement Association engaged a large project at a cost of approximately $ 40,000 funded by neighborhood donations and a $ 7,000 grant from

265-642: A few larger architectural landmarks. On the eastern half of the neighborhood is the Scottish Rite affordable housing complex which consists of two multi-story apartment buildings that cater mostly to elderly and low income individuals. The former buildings of Graduate Hospital lie on South Street, the northern border of the neighborhood. Along Grays Ferry Avenue is the former Philadelphia Naval Asylum or Naval Home, designed in 1826 by William Strickland . This National Historic Landmark , first constructed in 1833, closed in 1976, and has been developed into condos

318-496: A new model for delivering gene therapy treatments for blood disorders . CHOP has research groups working on childhood cancer , autism , mitochondrial disorders , and many other diseases and conditions, and keeps expanding to include new laboratories and centers (like the Center for Craniofacial Innovation, opened in 2022 with Eric Liao as the director). The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has consistently been ranked among

371-506: A second children's hospital campus in King of Prussia , Pennsylvania ; the hospital, with an expected cost $ 298 million and consisting of seven floors and 250,000 square feet (23,000 m ), would have a capacity of 52 beds, with a potential expansion to 108 beds. In September 2019, Swedish construction firm Skanska broke ground on the new building. The new hospital is built adjacent to CHOP's specialty care and outpatient surgery center. In

424-683: A six region area that also includes University City all the way to the Philadelphia International Airport that is part of a revitalization plan to stimulate the region. The proposal for three new Schuylkill Avenue towers proposed by the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is for the towers to take the place of the Springfield Beer Distributor, and the former JFK Vocational School , with each tower being 26 stories high. Every year since 1975,

477-570: Is a center of pediatric research and is focused on developing programs which enrich each patient's emotional well-being. Seacrest Studios gives children the opportunity to conduct interviews with celebrities and watch live performances. The following Celebrities were guests of Seacrest Studios: Selena Gomez (who was also named as ambassador to the foundation in April 2012), CeeLo Green , Carrie Underwood , The Fray , Adam Levine , 5 Seconds of Summer , Taylor Swift , Julianne Hough , Jason Derulo ,

530-545: Is a closed-circuit radio station and multimedia center. The studio, located in the main lobby, provides young patients within The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia community with an outlet to engage in activities related to radio, TV and new media, ranging from broadcasting like a disc jockey and playing their favorite songs to watching live artists perform and interviewing celebrities. The mission of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Media Programs and Seacrest Studios

583-517: Is building broadcast media centers, named Seacrest Studios, within the hospital to help in the healing process. Patients have access to radio, television and new media. Seacrest Studios opened in July 2011 and is the second media center to open after the completion of the first center November 2010 at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta in Georgia. Seacrest chose Children's Hospital of Philadelphia because it

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636-464: Is in Philadelphia's University City neighborhood, and since 2001 has been undergoing a $ 1.5 billion expansion that has doubled the hospital's size, while also building more than one million sq ft (93,000 m ) of new research and outpatient facilities on a large, eight-acre (3.2 ha) site south of the main hospital on Civic Center Boulevard. The South Campus expansion includes

689-517: Is now known as Naval Square . The Schuylkill Arsenal was originally built at the edge of this neighborhood, but has since been demolished. Prior to the Act of Consolidation, 1854 , this neighborhood was part of Moyamensing Township . Moyamensing was originally chartered by the Dutch governor Alexander d'Hinoyossa, and in 1684, William Penn confirmed the title. The neighborhood began taking shape after

742-541: Is now open for the reception of Patients. Children suffering from Acute Diseases and Accidents will be received free of charge. A dispensary, for sick children, is also attached to the Hospital and will be open at the same place every day, (Sundays excepted from 11 to 12 o'clock, when advice and medicine will be given free of charge.) The first location of the original Children's Hospital was a small building on Blight Street (now Watts St). The hospital consisted of 12 beds and

795-478: The National Register of Historic Places . In recent years, the area has experienced growth and gentrification . Hundreds of single family homes and condominium units have been built or refurbished. As a result of the neighborhood's proximity to Center City and increasing desirability, a variety of new businesses catering to the increasingly gentrified population have opened. Despite the improvements,

848-525: The Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine and Roberts Proton Therapy Center. On July 1, 2015, Madeline Bell , previously CHOP's president and chief operating officer, became president and chief executive officer. She succeeded Steven M. Altschuler, MD, who retired after 15 years as CEO. The board of trustees of Children's Hospital made the announcement on May 14. Later that year, in October 2015,

901-530: The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania . In 1855, Philadelphia had a population of about 460,000, and recorded 10,507 deaths. Leading causes of death were smallpox , typhoid , and scarlet fever . In the worst month of 1855, 300 children under 12 years old died, primarily of infectious diseases . A Philadelphia physician, Dr. Francis West Lewis, inspired by a visit to

954-459: The University of Pennsylvania , began in 1969, and the first building was opened in 1974. This present Children's Hospital complex occupies part of the site of the old Philadelphia General Hospital and Blockley Almshouse . A helicopter transport system for critically ill and injured children was inaugurated in 1973. Milestones and advances in pediatric care pioneered at CHOP include the first formal medical training in pediatrics , techniques for

1007-511: The University of Pennsylvania . The hospital has 594 beds and more than one million outpatient and inpatient visits annually. It is one of the world's largest and oldest children's hospitals and the first hospital in the United States dedicated to the healthcare of children. CHOP has been ranked as the best children's hospital in the United States by U.S. News & World Report and Parents Magazine since 2020. As of 2020, it

1060-580: The neighborhood surrounding the square, bounded roughly by 21st Street on the east, the Schuylkill River on the west, Locust Street on the north, and South Street on the south. To the east of this neighborhood is the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood; to the west is the University City neighborhood, home to the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University ; to the south is Southwest Center City (also known as "South of South" or

1113-494: The "Graduate Hospital Area"). The portion of Center City surrounding Fitler Square and nearby Rittenhouse Square is sometimes referred to as "Rit-Fit" after the two parks. Before the 1950s, the neighborhood was a prime example of the urban blight that had overcome much of the city. The park itself was described as a "mudhole inhabited by drunks and empty bottles". In the mid-1950s, The Center City Residents' Association successfully petitioned Mayor Clark to do something about

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1166-869: The 1960s a crosstown expressway running along South Street was planned. This would have created a barrier between Center City and the neighborhoods to the south. The result was widespread abandonment of properties in SWCC and the decay of the South Street business corridor. The loss of jobs and residents caused the neighborhood to decline as buildings were abandoned and left to deteriorate. The Marian Anderson House , Franklin Hose Company No. 28 , William S. Peirce School , Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Freight Shed , Royal Theater , St. Anthony de Padua Parish School , Edwin M. Stanton School , and Tindley Temple United Methodist Church are listed on

1219-524: The Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care opened and moved most outpatient services into the building. The addition is a 12-story, 700,000-square-foot (65,000 m ) building with a five-story, 1500-space underground parking garage directly attached. Composed of stacked forms and a selection of primary colors, the twelve-story building and six-story wing offer an interactive setting for treatment. In June 2018, CHOP announced their plans to build

1272-482: The Civil War. In 1870, it was predominantly an Irish American community; however, the neighborhood was in a transitional period, and by 1920, a majority of its residents were African Americans . It continued to experience significant in-migration from the south prior to, during, and immediately after World War II. It remained a solid working-class neighborhood for most of the first half of the twentieth century. In

1325-534: The New Jersey–based Saint Peter's University Hospital. All pediatric cardiac care at The Children's Hospital at Saint Peters is conducted from physicians affiliated with CHOP and complex cases are usually transferred to the hospital. CHOP has an Adolescent & Young Adult Oncology Program for adolescents and young adults up to 30 to have treatment for their cancers. Seacrest Studios (formerly known as The Voice) at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

1378-675: The Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center (PMC) is provided by doctors from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia on PMC's inpatient pediatric wards, pediatric emergency department, and pediatric specialty care center. Adjacent to the medical center is the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Specialty Center that treats infants, children, adolescents, and young adults up to the age of 21. In addition to all of their outpatient centers, hospitals and primary care offices, CHOP also maintains an affiliation with

1431-589: The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society to change the fountain into one that recirculates all of its water with a pumping system saving huge amounts of water each year. The Philadelphia School, a private institution, is located in the Fitler Square Neighborhood at 2501 Lombard St. The school, which originally opened in 1972, offers preschool through 8th grade classes. The Free Library of Philadelphia operates

1484-492: The Philadelphia City Institute on the first floor and lower level of an apartment complex at 1905 Locust Street. Children%27s Hospital of Philadelphia The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia , also known by its acronym CHOP , is a children's hospital in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania. Its primary campus is located in the University City neighborhood of West Philadelphia on the campus of

1537-477: The Springfield Beer Distributor and the former JFK Vocational Center (earlier the Marine Corps Depot of Supplies ), which were demolished. The Philadelphia Inquirer states that the area will be undergoing gentrification to the point that the area may no longer be known by its current name "Devil's Pocket." Furthermore, the area is expected to become a major contributor to Philadelphia's economy with

1590-505: The area hosts Philadelphia's Odunde festival , a one-day festival and mostly a street market catered to African-American interests and the African diaspora . It is derived from the tradition of the Yoruba people of Nigeria , in celebration of the new year. It is centered at the intersection of Grays Ferry Avenue and South Street. Fitler Square, Philadelphia Fitler Square is

1643-472: The best hospitals for children by U.S. News & World Report . A detailed ranking of pediatric facilities in the United States is printed in the publication's first stand-alone "America's Best Children's Hospitals" issue. In 2020, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was ranked No. 2 nationwide and No. 1 in Pennsylvania in the U.S. News & World Report: Best Children's Hospital Ratings. In 2021

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1696-721: The cast of The Maze Runner , Hot Chelle Rae , Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter , Florida Georgia Line , R5 , Austin Mahone and Rixton . The Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House was the first of the Ronald McDonald House Charities and now stands at 39th and Chestnut Streets in West Philadelphia . The House opened with the help of Philadelphia Eagles manager Jimmy Murray and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Pediatric Oncologists Dr. Audrey Evans and Dr. Milton 'Mickey' Donaldson. In

1749-487: The company and the local South of South Neighborhood Association, but this was soon resolved as the project was deemed a success. Universal Companies has since opened several small neighborhood businesses, low-income housing, and a charter school. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is expanding in the western part of the neighborhood and opened its first facility in 2017 along the Schuykill River. It replaced

1802-521: The correction of congenital heart malformations , incubators for newborn intensive care , home ventilator care, and vaccine development. In October 2006, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's trauma center was one of the receiving hospitals' for victims of the West Nickel Mines School shooting , treating a few of the pediatric victims from the shooting who were medevaced to the hospital. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

1855-411: The decline of the neighborhood. Working together, they freed up mortgage money for the construction of new homes and rehabilitation of the neighborhood. Also threatening the neighborhood was the proposed Crosstown Expressway . The threat of its construction, which would demolish much of the neighborhood, was enough to reduce property values and add to the neighborhood's blight. The Residents' Association

1908-481: The early 1970s, Evans and Donaldson saw families spending night after night in the hospital while their children received medical care. She knew there had to be a better way and envisioned a house where families could stay. At the same time, the Philadelphia Eagles were fundraising in support of player Fred Hill 's daughter, Kim, who was battling leukemia . In 2006, the first Ronald McDonald Family Room

1961-467: The eleven-story Colket Translational Research Building, which provides lab space for the Center for Childhood Cancer Research and the Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics. The new South Campus also includes an underground parking garage and an ambulatory care building with outpatient services. This South Campus expansion adjoins the University of Pennsylvania Health System's construction of

2014-626: The expansion of the Brandywine Valley Specialty Care and Ambulatory Surgery Center was opened. This is a 44,000-square-foot (4,100 m ) expansion. In May 2020 amidst the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic CHOP started offering virtual pediatric urgent care visits to all children aged 0–21 throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Delaware regardless of if the child was a patient at the hospital or not. CHOP has 594 beds, almost 40 percent of which are allocated to neonatal, cardiac, and pediatric intensive care. Each year

2067-607: The hospital admits more than 28,000 children and more than 1.167 million are seen in the emergency and outpatient departments. The hospital has developed an expansion plan that includes four buildings along Schuylkill Avenue, on the east side of the Schuylkill River. The first building, a 375-foot-tall (114 m) tower called the Roberts Center for Pediatric Research, or the CHOP Research Tower,

2120-482: The medical facility on the northern edge of the neighborhood. This name has become merely historical in nature since the hospital closed in 2007. Despite this, it is still used and is sometimes shortened to G-Ho . The area is also referred to as South of South or So-So. A small corner of this area is sometimes known as Devil's Pocket . The neighborhood consists primarily of nineteenth and twentieth-century rowhouses interspersed with corner stores, 22 churches and

2173-571: The neighborhood still contains some abandoned and dilapidated housing, especially towards the south. The Grammy Award winning musician and local resident Kenneth Gamble founded Universal Companies in Southwest Center City to revitalize the neighborhood. Universal Community Homes, a division of the company, began the Universal Court housing project in the neighborhood in the 1990s. Originally, some tension existed between

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2226-596: The new Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London (founded 1852), enlisted Drs. T. Hewson Bache and R. A. F. Penrose Sr. to found the first children's hospital in North America. On November 23, 1855, the following small advertisement appeared in the Philadelphia Public Ledger : The Children's Hospital—located on Blight Street, running from Pine to Lombard, below Broad,

2279-408: The potential of $ 63 billion pumped into the economy as well as a job generator. The hospital has hired a consultant to plan the traffic patterns around the area as they did for Delaware Waterfront and New York's Battery Park . The plan is for "... three towers, of about 26 stories each, would be lined up along Schuylkill Avenue." The plans unveiled by the city show that Schuylkill Avenue is part of

2332-503: The school of medicine, with most of the attending physicians appointed jointly to both institutions. In 1967, after years of lobbying hospital physicians and anesthesiologists, Dr. John Downes finally opened up a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) at CHOP, the first of its kind in the United States. Downes was inspired by pediatric and adult intensive care units in Europe and wanted to open a state-of-the-art unit in Philadelphia to care for

2385-404: The sickest of children. Before the creation of a PICU at CHOP, children who required advanced care were often cared for on the surgery wards and recovery rooms. Most of these children were cared for by anesthesiologists in the recovery room. Construction of the new hospital at a new site on the west side of the Schuylkill River at 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, adjacent to the campus of

2438-497: The wake of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, CHOP officials released that they were considering adding beds to the shell space to total 108 beds. The hospital opened on January 26, 2022. On November 8, 2021, it was announced that CHOP had received a large donation from local businessman Stanley Middleman, provoking CHOP to name the new King of Prussia campus The Middleman Family Pavilion. The hospital has 52 total beds with shell space reserved for future expansion. Pediatric care to

2491-605: Was appointed in 1873, and formal medical teaching in medical and surgical clinics began in 1877. Early on in CHOP's history, a long-term care ("convalescent") facility was opened as a county branch near Overbrook. In 1899, the County Branch convalescent facility was closed, and the program and patients were transferred to the Seashore House near Atlantic City, New Jersey. CHOP later underwent an expansion, and capacity

2544-529: Was built between 2015 and 2017 on the 700 block of Schuylkill Avenue, with an address of 2716 South Street. Children's Seashore House was founded in 1872 near Atlantic City, New Jersey , as a place for children to receive rehabilitation treatment. The hospital moved to its current location next to CHOP in 1990, and was acquired by CHOP in 1998, whereas of which the hospital has 45 beds. It currently provides inpatient and outpatient care for children with developmental disabilities and chronic illnesses. In 2015,

2597-422: Was increased to 94 beds by 1892. Construction adjacent to the second hospital began in 1913, and the first unit was opened in 1916, extending toward 18th and Bainbridge Streets. In 1919, the hospital became affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine . The affiliation became steadily closer over the next 17 years, with the Children's Hospital becoming identical to the pediatric department of

2650-582: Was named for late 19th century Philadelphia mayor Edwin Henry Fitler shortly after his death in 1896. The square lies on land owned by the City of Philadelphia, via the Department of Parks and Recreation, and is cared for through a public private partnership between the Department of Parks and Recreation and the Fitler Square Improvement Association. The name Fitler Square is also used to describe

2703-478: Was opened at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in the Oncology Unit. In addition to its clinical facilities and programs, CHOP supports multiple research programs and dedicated core facilities. Its first laboratory opened in 1922, and CHOP scientists' contributions include a gene therapy for Leber congenital amaurosis ( Luxturna ), antiviral vaccines like the aforementioned pertussis vaccine, and

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2756-420: Was ranked number one in the nation by U.S. News & World Report for three out of ten specialties. The hospital treats infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21. The hospital also treats adults who would benefit from advanced pediatric care. The hospital is located next to the University of Pennsylvania, and most of its physicians serve in the pediatrics and other speciality departments of

2809-540: Was successful in changing these plans and in the following years the neighborhood drastically improved largely due to efforts of the Center City Residents' Association and the Fitler Square Improvement Association. The neighborhood is mostly residential, composed of single-family homes , and within a short walk of the commercial areas of Center City. A sculpture of three turtles adorn the park made by Philadelphia artist Eric Berg along with sculptures of

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