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1855

On November 23, 1855, the following small advertisement appeared in the Philadelphia Public Ledger:

About The Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was founded in 1855 as the nation's first pediatric hospital.

1870

The second hospital was the site of the first surgery at CHOP which was first performed by 1870.

1873

The first resident physician (Doctor Rudolfo Valdevesio) was appointed in 1873.

1877

Formal education of medical students started in 1877.

1892

CHOP later underwent an expansion and capacity was increased to 94 beds by 1892.

1894

Training of pediatric nurses started in 1894.

1916

When the Hospital moved to its Bainbridge Street location in Center City Philadelphia in 1916, and funding was urgently needed, the community contributed $500,000 in 10 days! Such vivid illustrations of generosity carry on to this day.

1939

DoctorJoseph Stokes became the Chief of the Hospital and Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics in 1939.

1967

In 1967, after years of lobbying hospital physician and anesthesiologist, Doctor John Downes finally opened up a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) at CHOP, the first of its kind in the United States.

1981

Doctor C. Everett Koop, one of the country’s most celebrated physicians, was surgeon-in-chief at CHOP for 33 years, leaving in 1981 to become United States surgeon general.

2015

Later that year, in October 2015, the expansion of the Brandywine Valley Specialty Care and Ambulatory Surgery Center was opened.

Published on Jul 13, 2015 in CHOP News

2020

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.

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