PHILADELPHIA – By tomorrow morning, the Philadelphia Flyers will either be headed to the NHL’s Stanley Cup Finals or looking to close out the Eastern Conference Finals against the Montreal Canadians.
Either way, the Flyers Fun Patrol will be stopping by Penn Medicine Rittenhouse to visit with patients in the Penn Hospice at Rittenhouse inpatient hospice and the Good Shepherd Penn Partners inpatient rehabilitation units. Wives of the current and past Flyers players may stop by, as patients and staff get Flyer’d Up in support of the Flyers.
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Penn Medicine Rittenhouse
1800 Lombard Street
Philadelphia, PA 19146 |
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
11AM |
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PHOTO OPs with Flyers’ wives and Fun Patrol visiting with select patients from Penn Hospice at Rittenhouse and Good Shepherd Penn Partners rehabilitation units.
Interviews available with:
- Marge Bowen, Director of Penn Hospice at Rittenhouse
- Kellie Page, volunteer Hospice Advisory Board member and wife of Comcast Spectacor COO John Page
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Penn Medicine is one of the world’s leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, excellence in patient care, and community service. The organization consists of the University of Pennsylvania Health System and Penn’s Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine, founded in 1765 as the nation’s first medical school.
The Perelman School of Medicine is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $550 million awarded in the 2022 fiscal year. Home to a proud history of “firsts” in medicine, Penn Medicine teams have pioneered discoveries and innovations that have shaped modern medicine, including recent breakthroughs such as CAR T cell therapy for cancer and the mRNA technology used in COVID-19 vaccines.
The University of Pennsylvania Health System’s patient care facilities stretch from the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania to the New Jersey shore. These include the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Chester County Hospital, Lancaster General Health, Penn Medicine Princeton Health, and Pennsylvania Hospital—the nation’s first hospital, founded in 1751. Additional facilities and enterprises include Good Shepherd Penn Partners, Penn Medicine at Home, Lancaster Behavioral Health Hospital, and Princeton House Behavioral Health, among others.
Penn Medicine is an $11.1 billion enterprise powered by more than 49,000 talented faculty and staff.