page_title: Medical centers in the United States
section_title: University of Pennsylvania Health System
hierarchical_section_title: Medical centers in the United States / Major medical centers / Pennsylvania / University of Pennsylvania Health System
caption_attribution_description: English: The original building of Pennsylvania Hospital, as seen from Pine Street in Philadelphia.
context_page_description: Medical centers in the United States are conglomerations of health care facilities including hospitals and research facilities that also either include or are closely affiliated with a medical school. Although the term medical center is sometimes loosely used to refer to any concentration of health care providers including local clinics and individual hospital buildings, the term academic medical center more specifically refers to larger facilities or groups of facilities that include a full spectrum of health services, medical education, and medical research.
  The major medical centers represent the crown jewels of health care in the United States. They vary greatly in their organization, the services they provide, and their ownership and operation.
context_section_description: University of Pennsylvania Health System includes the nation's first teaching hospital, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP), and the nation's first hospital, Pennsylvania Hospital. It operates under the direction and auspices of Penn Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. HUP alone is ranked as the 9th-best overall hospital in the United States by U.S. News & World Report in 2010. Although it is not a part of Penn Health System, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia(CHOP) is also on the same campus and it engages in many collaborative efforts. CHOP's physicians serve as the pediatrics department of Penn's School of Medicine.
caption: The original building of Pennsylvania Hospital, as seen from Pine Street in Philadelphia.
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