Health and health care

Across hospitals, clinics, virtual care, and home care, Penn Medicine is delivering the future of medicine to patients. Stay informed with insights and updates from our experts.
Two nurses looking at a tablet with James Wright, who is playing the part of patient in the Hospital at Home simulation

To deliver hospital-level care at home, practice makes perfect

Simulations and test runs helped Penn Medicine teams prepare for the launch of a Hospital at Home program at two of the system’s hospitals.

Jen Brady, right, sitting with her mom, Terri, at a table with a Penn Transplant Institute folder on it

A kidney for her mom, a marathon for herself

Jen Brady donated a kidney to her mother, before training for the Boston Marathon—embodying the well-being and caregiving support she champions.

Ensuring patients get the right care in the right place

Exterior of the Clyde F Barker Transplant house

 A home away from home for transplant patients and families

The Clyde F. Barker Penn Transplant House offers a comforting and affordable refuge for transplant patients and families—with community and hope.

  • Matt Toal
  • April 14, 2026
Aileen John puts a stethoscope to a patient’s chest.

A 24/7 virtual care service means freedom from on-call hours

A new initiative frees Penn primary care doctors from most on-call duties after work hours, while patients still have 24-hour access to virtual care.

  • Olivia Kimmel
  • January 28, 2026
Robin Wood and William Schweickert converse while sitting in an office filled with cubicles

Hospital capacity management teams are making space for miracles

Behind the scenes, it takes smart capacity management systems to serve patients who need nothing less than the most advanced health care available anywhere.

  • Christina Hernandez Sherwood
  • October 10, 2025

Featured patient stories

Chris Baccash sits against a brick wall after finishing a bike race

How a brain tumor helped cyclist Chris Baccash change his life

It would have been understandable for the Doylestown, PA, native to feel despondent about the road ahead. But he had a different reaction to the news.

  • Daphne Sashin
  • April 30, 2026
Bill Curtis standing next to James Todd Alderfer in a doctor's office

A lifelong doctor-patient bond saves Bill Curtis' heart

An active small business owner’s failing heart set off a seamless chain of care—from Doylestown to Philadelphia experts—that ultimately saved his life.

  • Matt Toal
  • May 28, 2026
Dennis and Lauren Massimo in 2026, standing on the porch of Lauren's house, with Dennis' home in the background

Cancer survivor: Learning I had Lynch syndrome ‘saved my life’

Dennis Massimo was only 42 and symptom-free when he was diagnosed with colorectal cancer related to an inherited condition he didn’t realize he had.

  • Meagan Raeke
  • March 3, 2026

Reimagining the future of health care

Emeka Anyanwu, a clinician-engineer who uses the Chart Hero platform, is shown using the tool at a computer

New AI tool helps doctors to sift and synthesize patient data

An AI-guided platform at Penn Medicine allows clinicians to quickly and easily unearth pertinent information from patients’ electronic health records that otherwise might have been difficult to find.

  • Frank Otto
  • January 8, 2026
A woman talking to a doctor on a phone while holding pill bottle

Study finds telemedicine visits cost far less than office visits

In addition to being five times less costly, the telemedicine visits led to fewer follow-up visits, too.

  • February 24, 2026
Illustration of human figures in a retro-futuristic landscape of ideas in bubbles with text “The Reimagineers”

The reimagineers of Penn Medicine

Penn Medicine is harnessing technology, innovation, and physician insights to make health care easier for clinicians and patients.

  • Christina Hernandez Sherwood
  • April 4, 2025

Connecting to advanced care across the region

Pilot Eric Houghton inspects a PennSTAR helicopter on the rooftop of the Clifton Center for Health Care Innovation at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania with the skyline of Philadelphia in the background

PennSTAR delivers critical care in the air, across the region

For PennSTAR, Penn Medicine’s critical care transport service, any given day brings a new opportunity to save lives—at high speed and altitude, anywhere they’re needed across the region.

  • Kris Ankarlo
  • January 15, 2026
Portrait of Kevin Mahoney, Chief Executive Officer, University of Pennsylvania Health System 

Beyond buildings: a blueprint for accessible care

At Penn Medicine, health care is about the architecture of care for entire communities where people can access treatment when and where they need it.

  • Kevin Mahoney
  • June 25, 2025
A teaching doctor reviewing a patient chart with a resident at Chester County Hospital

Keeping the ‘family’ together as Crozer residents move to Penn

Now at Chester County Hospital, former Crozer residents are sustaining their primary care lifeline for 25,000 patients in the community.

  • Kris Ankarlo
  • October 8, 2025

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