Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania

Programs: The university of pennsylvania ("penn"university") is one of the oldest universities in the united states. It traces its origins back to a charity school founded in 1740, was chartered as a college in 1755, and on may 17, 1757, held its first commencement, graduating a class of seven students. From these early and modest beginnings, penn has grown into one of the leading research and educational institutions in the united states and in the world. Public service is a top institutional priority for penn. As such, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer research that pushes the boundaries of current human knowledge; and to provide the most current and highest quality in patient care through the university health system. The university is home to the university of pennsylvania museum of archaeology and anthropology, the institute for contemporary art, and the annenberg center for the performing arts, all of which contribute vitally to enriching the cultural life of philadelphia. In addition, the university is an active participant in the west philadelphia neighborhood that is its home. I. Education penn's firm belief that excellence and diversity go hand-in-hand is evidenced by fy2017s concomitant increases in admissions selectivity and campus multiculturalism. Of 40,413 students who applied, only 3,757, or 9. 3%, were offered admission into the class of 2021. 53% of the class is female, and 47% is male. This exceptional class has, at the same time, contributed to penns ongoing growth in diversity: among united states citizens and permanent residents at penn, 47. 9% self-identify as students of color, up from 32% six years before. 12. 4% of students identify as first generation college students. Of the international students enrolled in the class of 2021, 11% were from africa and the middle east, 48% from asia, 4% from australia and the pacific, 14% from canada and mexico, 9% from central and south america and the caribbean, and 14% from europe. This progress can be directly attributed to the universitys continued commitment to increasing access through all-grant aid packages that meet the full financial need of undergraduates, expanding the penn world scholars program, and strengthening graduate and professional financial aid. Penn is the nations largest university with a program that enables dependent undergraduates eligible for aid to receive grant-based financial aid packages for eight academic semesters. Penns aid program demonstrates the universitys commitment to increase access for qualified students from all economic backgrounds. In fy2017 the average freshman aid package was $48,977, an increase of 7. 0% over the previous year and 44% over the average aid package of $33,608 in fy2008, when the all-grant policy was announced. Ranked eighth among all national universities by u. S. News & world report, penn is consistently recognized for having some of the top academic programs in the country. Penns undergraduate business program is ranked #1 nationally, while penns medical school and graduate programs in business and nursing are consistently ranked in the top five nationwide. The perelman school of medicine has been ranked among the top five medical schools in the united states for the past 20 years, according to u. S. News & world reports survey of research-oriented medical schools. The school is consistently among the nations top recipients of funding from the national institutes of health, with $405 million awarded in the 2017 fiscal year. Ii. Research with more than $900 million in annual r&d expenditures, penn is one of the nation's top research universities, not only generating important new knowledge in the fields of medicine, technology, business, science, and beyond, but applying this knowledge to improve the lives of individuals and communities at home and around the world. Penn has long been a cradle of ingenuity dedicated to serving the public good. The pennovation center, flagship facility of the pennovation works, leverages this legacy by creating an environment that nurtures novel ideas and accelerates their evolution into new technologies, therapies, products, and, ultimately, companies that will change the world. One measure of excellence for the research and academic studies conducted at penn is the numerous prestigious awards that have been conferred on penn faculty. The faculty, active and emeriti, includes 85 members of the academy of arts and sciences, 99 members of the national academy of medicine, 34 members of the national academy of sciences, 23 members of the american philosophical society, 167 guggenheim fellows, and 11 members of the national academy of engineering. Over the past two decades, penn has been home to eight macarthur award recipients, four national medal of science recipients, four nobel prize recipients, and two pulitzer prize recipients. As of fy2017, penns renowned research community comprises 138 research centers and institutes, over 4,800 faculty, more than 1,200 postdoctoral fellows, over 5,500 academic support staff and graduate student trainees, and a research budget of $966 million. Research grants won by penn faculty make it one of the highest ranked research universities in the country. The opening of the pennovation center at the pennovation works site stands as a testament to the value penn places on big ideas. It is a place where university scholars, doers, and problem-solvers, including those from the penn engineering research and collaborative hub, are working side by side with information technology, biotechnology, and robotics startups, fortune 500 companies, and a host of technologists, researchers, and venture capitalists to explore and push new ideas into reality and expand our frontiers of knowledge. Https://www. Pennovation. Upenn. Edu/ iii. Public service mission community infrastructure - penn has called west philadelphia home since 1871, and has made serving the community a top institutional priority. The university remains strongly committed to making west philadelphia an ever more vibrant place to live and work. 2017 marked the 11th year of achievement for the penn connects and penn connects 2. 0 campus plans to create an innovative, sustainable, and beautiful urban campus that reinvigorates the entire community of west philadelphia. Http://www. Pennconnects. Upenn. Edu/ since 2006, penn has added 27. 25 acres of new open space, 6 million square feet of new construction, and 2. 7 million square feet of renovation, representing a total commitment of public and private investment of $3. 8 billion. The eastern side of university city, once dominated by the southeastern pennsylvania headquarters for the united states post office - a 24-acre mix of mail processing and transportation facilities - has been revitalized by penns strategic application of public private partnerships. Modernizing this land use unlocks its potential for generating economic development; while connecting university city to philadelphias center city (central business district) and around its transportation hub at 30th and market streets (amtraks station, septas combination of public rail and bus transit, and interstate 76). The elements of the plan included replacing the post offices surface parking lot and truck depot with the universitys penn park, a 14-acre open space and mix of athletic facilities that introduced both a new gateway to university city and a new greenway with environmental benefits such as adding more than 500 new indigenous trees and plant life and capturing and reusing storm water to mitigate runoff into the schuylkill river. North of penn park, is cira centre south. Once the post offices truck terminal annex, the university leased the land to brandywine realty trust who privately developed it into a three structure complex including: evo, an 850-bed graduate student and young professional apartment building; cira green, a mixed-use building including a 1,662 space parking garage, 9,000 square feet of street level retail businesses, and a one-acre rooftop green and open space; and fmc tower, a 49-story, 730-foot skyscraper and global headquarters of the specialty chemical company, fmc corporation. The university is leasing 125,000 square feet for administrative offices, and the towers upper most floors contain 260 luxury hotel suites and a conference center targeted to professionals and operated by a third party housing specialist. The street level lobby hosts a restaurant. Learn more about penn connects including project details at http://www. Pennconnects. Upenn. Edu/ south of penn park, is a 23-acre property adjacent to penns campus that accommodates the pennovation works site. Pennovation works is anchored by the pennovation center, a business incubator that provides lab space and a hub for collaboration and the exchange of ideas for innovators from all disciplines. Penn researchers and entrepreneurs work with indust

iv. Patient care the hospital of the university of pennsylvania ("hup"), the flagship of the university of pennsylvania health system's five hospitals, was established in 1874 as a teaching hospital to complement the medical education received by students at the university of pennsylvanias medical school, the perelman school of medicine. It has 18 clinical departments and provides training in more than 40 clinical specialties. Major areas of investigation include heart disease, cancer, and diseases of aging including alzheimers disease, women's health, diabetes and obesity. The health system, with 2,546 licensed hospital beds, is a valued health-care resource, especially to people residing in the greater philadelphia and lancaster areas. During the course of a year, it admits approximately 117,000 patients and accounts for over 3. 7 million outpatient visits, more than 304,000 emergency room visits and more than 16,000 births. Hup is the only hospital in this area that performs transplants of all major organs. Penn medicines level 1 trauma center, which operates around the clock to care for patients whove been critically injured in car accidents, falls, and through blunt and penetrating traumas, is now located at penn presbyterian medical center. The center cares for more than 2,100 patients annually, several hundred of whom are transferred from other hospitals via the fleet of pennstar medical helicopters and ground ambulances. Both hup and penn presbyterian medical center also care for a large number of patients who are transferred here with time-sensitive cardiac and surgical emergencies. In keeping with its charitable purpose, the university of pennsylvania health system ("uphs") (which includes the hup and clinical practices of the university of pennsylvania ("cpup") divisions of the trustees of the university of pennsylvania), as well as certain affiliates, accepts patients in serious need of medical care regardless of their financial status. This definition includes those patients suffering from a medical condition manifesting itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity (including severe pain) such that the absence of immediate medical attention could reasonably be expected to result in (1) placing the health of the individual (or, with respect to a pregnant woman, the health of the woman or her unborn child) in serious jeopardy, or (2) serious impairment to bodily functions. Uphs also provides care to patients who do not have health insurance or meet the criteria to qualify for its charity care policy, and certain amounts charged for such services are deemed to be uncollectible. Uphs maintains records to identify and monitor the level of charity care they provide. These records include the amount of payment forgone, based on established rates, for services and supplies furnished under its charity care policy. Http://www. Pennmedicine. Org/for-patients-and-visitors/patient-infor mation/insurance-and-billing/financial-assistance uphs estimated $16,134,000 and $16,282,000 of costs were incurred during 2017 and 2016, respectively, from providing services to charity patients. The estimated costs of providing charity services are based on data derived from a combination of the uphs cost accounting system and the ratio of costs to charges. Additionally, the costs of providing services to eligible welfare recipients, who participate in the pennsylvania medical assistance and local managed medicaid programs exceeded reimbursement by $236,995,000 and $242,621,000 in 2017 and 2016, respectively. In addition to providing direct patient charity care, in furtherance of its exempt purpose to benefit the community, the university of pennsylvania health system recently completed a community health needs assessment to identify the most pressing health needs in the service area and determine how best to address those needs. The university of pennsylvania health system operates emergency rooms open to the public 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; maintains research facilities for the study of disease and injuries; provides facilities for teaching and training various students and medical personnel; facilitates the advancement of medical and surgical education; and provides various community services such as providing basic medical care for the homeless, treating of chronic disease for low-income residents, and providing women's health services to uninsured and low-income women of all ages; screenings for the detection of breast, colorectal, and skin cancer, cancer support groups, a toll free number for cancer information, free immunization shots, training programs for the city fire and police departments, health education classes and speeches. Https://www. Pennmedicine. Org/about/serving-our-community/reports below are some expanded program descriptions for just a small number of the many community care initiatives underway at penn medicine: - community medicine rotation: penn family medicine residents participate in a community medicine rotation in four-week blocks in their second and third years. Components include: > service at united community clinics, which serves low-income patients from our west philadelphia community; > unity clinic, which provides service to a southeast asian immigrant population; > prevention point philadelphia streetside health project, which provides care to patients struggling with homelessness and substance abuse; > two federally qualified health centers (haddington health services and family practice and counseling network), which provide care within the philadelphia health care safety net; > mazzoni center, which targets the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities; > health promotion sessions in local nursing homes and adult day-care facilities; > a home visitation program; and > sessions with the philadelphia department of public healths food safety inspection services. Https://www. Pennmedicine. Org/departments-and-centers/family-medicin e-and-community-health/community-initiatives/residency-community-in itiatives - pennsylvania hospitals ludmir center for womens health and latina community health services ("lchs"): the ludmir center is a non-profit ambulatory healthcare facility specializing in the provision of obstetrical, gynecologic and family planning services. Since its inception 30 years ago, wchs has provided quality medical care to all patients, regardless of their ability to pay. Latina community health services was developed in 2008 and serves hispanic, undocumented women through ongoing and high-risk obstetric and gynecologic care, prenatal diagnostic testing (ultrasound, biophysical profiles, non-stress tests), laboratory testing, contraceptives, cervical cancer screening, and medications to treat stds. Neighborhood-based bilingual lay health promoters trained by penn nurse coordinators also teach community members about cervical cancer prevention and schedule participants for pap screenings. Https://www. Pennmedicine. Org/news/internal-newsletters/whats-new/20 16/june/womens-and-childrens-health-services-renamed - puentes de salud/bridges of health, a nonprofit organization voluntarily staffed by penn medicine doctors, nurses, and medical students, provides low-cost primary care to undocumented and uninsured latino immigrants. It was established in 2002 by a penn emergency medicine physician who oversees the program on a volunteer basis. Puentes has grown to include services by students from penn's schools of social policy & practice, law, and dental medicine -- as well as students from other area universities and hospitals. Trained promotoras de salud/health promoters from the community escort patients to their visits and ensure compliance with their health care management plans. More recently, the organization expanded to include puentes hacia el futuro, an after-school program for elementary school students, which now includes more than 100 volunteer tutors from penn and area colleges. Http://www. Puentesdesalud. Org/ - the penn asian health initiatives (pahi) is staffed by penn medicine faculty, family medicine residents, and medical students from the asian and pacific american medical student association. Pahi is based in the department of family medicine and community health. It provides primary health care services, including testing, treatment, and education, to low-income asian immigrants, mostly non-english speaking indonesian and vietnamese patients. The programs asian physicians also mentor penns asian medical students, undergraduates, and public-health graduate students. - impact is a peer-support program that trains area residents to become community health workers, who in turn help low-income patients maintain their health and stay out of the hospital. The workers help patients schedule doctors appointments and tests, obtain medications and adhere to taking them, and find child care, transportation, and shelter. Impacts philosophy is that community health workers, through comm