Jefferson Health Abington is the organization that encompasses Jefferson Abington Hospital in Abington, PA and Jefferson Lansdale Hospital in Hatfield Township, PA, as well as a number of convenient outpatient settings for obtaining expert medical care in Bucks, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties.
Since 2015, the organization has been part of Jefferson Health, which now includes 14 hospitals and more than 40 outpatient and Urgent Care Center locations located throughout Philadelphia, Bucks and Montgomery counties in Pennsylvania and Camden and Gloucester counties in New Jersey. Outpatient and community-based services are delivered through a network of owned and affiliated physician practices, satellite medical and surgical centers, outpatient laboratories and radiology centers. Together, Jefferson Health has 126,000 inpatient admissions; 499,000 Emergency Department visits, and four million outpatient visits annually.
Also located on the Willow Grove Campus is the Asplundh Cancer Pavilion, a full service outpatient cancer center of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center Jefferson Health. Jefferson Abington Hospital, founded in 1914, is the largest community teaching hospital in Montgomery and Bucks counties. Staff members have the privilege of working with medical students, residents and fellows from Thomas Jefferson University's Sidney Kimmel Medical College and other medical schools and training programs in the Philadelphia area. The hospital sponsors five residency programs of its own: family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, general surgery and dentistry. In addition, the hospital provides postgraduate medical education in affiliation with several area medical schools. Jefferson College of Nursing offers a second Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program at the Jefferson Health Dixon Campus in Willow Grove. Abington also supports a pharmacy residency program.
In fiscal year 2021, Jefferson Health Abington treated more than 100,000 patients in its two Emergency Departments, with Jefferson Abington Hospital having the distinction of having one of only two Level II trauma centers in Montgomery County. Jefferson Abington Hospital has a comprehensive stroke center and offers highly advanced programs in cancer, cardiac and orthopedic care. Jefferson Health Abington complies with all applicableanti-discrimination laws.
You likely have questions about whether or not it is safe for you to enter our healthcare facilities for surgery, a procedure, test or other service. At Jefferson Health, we have implemented a number of safety measures and precautions to keep you and your loved ones safe.
Jefferson Health Abington is dedicated to maintaining excellence and integrity in all aspects of its operations and its professional and business conduct. Accordingly, Jefferson Health Abington is committed to conformance with high ethical standards and compliance with all governing laws and regulations not only in the delivery of health care but in its business affairs and its dealings with employees, administrative staff, physicians, agents, payers and the communities it serves.
You do not have to be sure that you are right to raise concerns about potential violations of the Code, Jeffersons policies, laws, or regulations. Jefferson will investigate all good faith reports of possible misconduct.