Thomas Jefferson University Hospital is the flagship hospital of Jefferson Health, a multi-state non-profit health system based in Philadelphia. The hospital serves as the teaching hospital for Thomas Jefferson University. With 937 licensed beds and 63 operating rooms, it is the second-largest hospital in Pennsylvania as of 2018.
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital was founded in 1825 as the Infirmary of the Jefferson Medical College, the predecessor of the Hospital of Jefferson Medical College. Thomas Jefferson University Hospital serves patients in Philadelphia, the nation's sixth-largest city, and the city's surrounding regions in Delaware, South Jersey and Pennsylvania.[1][2]
Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals system has 937 licensed acute care beds. Services are provided at five locations: the main hospital facility and Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience, both in Center City Philadelphia, Methodist Hospital in South Philadelphia; Jefferson Hospital at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, just past the Philadelphia Sports Complex, also in South Philadelphia, and Jefferson-Voorhees Hospital in Voorhees, New Jersey.[3]