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Description

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NPHS Mission Statement
NPHS provides cost effective quality patient care services to the North Philadelphia community at St Josephs Hospital and specialty care at Girard Medical Center that reaches a broad regional community for the unique nature of the services offered

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History

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The History of NPHS
North Philadelphia Health System NPHS was incorporated in August of 1990 as a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation to own and operate Girard Medical Center GMC and St Josephs Hospital SJH collectively the Hospitals after both filed plans of reorganization in their respective Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases

The Hospitals have a long history of service to one of the oldest neighborhoods in the City of Philadelphia Founded in 1848 St Josephs Hospital is one of the oldest hospitals in the City of Philadelphia the City Girard Medical Center traces its roots to 1927 when it opened on its current site The two hospitals are located eight city blocks apart in lower North Central Philadelphia an area geographically close to downtown Philadelphia but very distant in terms of health care access economic status and social and cultural makeup North Philadelphia is an area which suffers from virtually all of the burdens of economic deprivation and the Hospitals remain among the few institutional pillars which have remained committed to the community The Hospitals developed on separate independent paths with distinct medical staffs governance and management until their paths converged together during the 1980s

In the early 1980s the Hospitals conducted total facility replacements financed by the issuance of bonds In 1982 SJH opened a new 146bed hospital to replace the original facility that had been significantly damaged in a severe fire In that same year of 1982 GMC known as Giuffre Medical Center until 1989 opened two new hospital buildings which housed 234 beds replacing the original 1927 Tower building