November 2023 — MHCE Newsletter
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TOWER HEALTH<br />
Advancing Health. Transforming Lives.<br />
Tower Health is a regional integrated healthcare system<br />
that offers compassionate, high quality, leading edge<br />
healthcare and wellness services to communities in Berks,<br />
Chester, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties. With<br />
approximately 11,500 employees, Tower Health consists<br />
of Reading Hospital in West Reading; Phoenixville<br />
Hospital in Phoenixville; Pottstown Hospital in Pottstown;<br />
and St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia,<br />
in partnership with Drexel University. Tower Health is<br />
strongly committed to academic medicine and training,<br />
including multiple residency and fellowship programs, the<br />
Drexel University College of Medicine at Tower Health,<br />
and the Reading Hospital School of Health Sciences in<br />
West Reading. The system also includes Reading Hospital<br />
Rehabilitation at Wyomissing; home healthcare provided<br />
by Tower Health at Home; TowerDirect ambulance and<br />
emergency response; Tower Health Medical Group; Tower<br />
Health Providers, our clinically integrated network; and 25<br />
Tower Health Urgent Care facilities across our service area.<br />
For more information, visit towerhealth.org.<br />
Reading Hospital is a 697-bed nonprofit teaching hospital<br />
that provides high quality healthcare, cutting-edge<br />
technology, and experienced, caring medical professionals.<br />
As the nationally recognized, Magnet-designated flagship<br />
institution of Tower Health, Reading Hospital is home to<br />
many top-tier specialty care centers and services, including<br />
the McGlinn Cancer Institute, Miller Regional Heart Center,<br />
one of the state’s busiest Emergency Departments and a<br />
Level I Trauma Center, and Beginnings Maternity Center,<br />
which houses the region’s only Level III Neonatal Intensive<br />
Care Unit (NICU). Reading Hospital was named one of<br />
America’s 50 Best Hospitals for <strong>2023</strong> by Healthgrades.<br />
This is the second year in a row (2022-<strong>2023</strong>) that Reading<br />
Hospital has been in the top 1 percent of hospitals<br />
nationwide for overall clinical performance. Reading<br />
Hospital has also been ranked as one of the Top Ten<br />
Hospitals by U.S. News and World Report the second year<br />
in a row.<br />
Reading Hospital has a long history of medical teaching,<br />
offering more than 20 residency and fellowship programs<br />
approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate<br />
Medical Education and the American Osteopathic<br />
Association. To further demonstrate our commitment to<br />
academic excellence and medical education, Tower Health<br />
has partnered with Drexel University College of Medicine to<br />
open a new medical school one-half mile walking distance<br />
from Reading Hospital, a regional medical campus for<br />
Drexel University College of Medicine at Tower Health. The<br />
school opened in 2021 and has begun its second academic<br />
year of 200 medical students, Class of 2024. To learn more,<br />
go to TowerHealth.org.<br />
To explore career opportunities, scan the<br />
QR Code or go to Careers.TowerHealth.org!