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The PaTH Network consists of nine health care systems: Boston Medical Center, Geisinger, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Health System, Penn State College of Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, RUSH, Temple Health System, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, the University of Pittsburgh, UPMC and UPMC Health Plan, The Ohio State University, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, University of Michigan, and Michigan Medicine.
Boston Medical Center (BMC) is the largest safety-net hospital in New England and serves a diverse patient population. With a mission to provide "Exceptional Care Without Exception," BMC specializes in the care of low-income adults and children with both chronic medical conditions and complex health-related social needs. As such, their team brings enhanced demographic diversity to the patients represented in PaTH datamarts. BMC provides a full spectrum of pediatric and adult care services, from primary care to advanced specialty care, and also serves a number of special populations. For example, BMC is home to the largest Center of Excellence for Sickle Cell Disease in New England, a well-established GenderCare Center (formerly The Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery), an Immigrant and Refugee Health Center, and the Grayken Center for Addiction Medicine, which is a nationally-renowned hub for substance use disorder resources and provides comprehensive mental health and substance use treatment to patients across New England. Using combined race/ethnicity categories, over 75% of patients served by BMC are people of color, with 33% self-identified as non-Hispanic Black and 25% as Latinx (of note, the majority of the patients within the "Other" race category identify as mixed race or Latinx). The majority of patients (65%) have public health insurance (Medicaid and/or Medicare) and over 30% require interpreter services. BMC is nationally recognized for innovation in clinical care delivery for historically underserved urban populations and for the development of successful programs to assess and meet patients’ health-related social needs, including housing, food and utility insecurity, transportation, and other material needs.
Geisinger Health System, located in Danville, Pa, is one of the largest integrated health systems in the U.S., serving about three million residents. Geisinger has spearheaded the development of The Keystone Health Information Exchange (KeyHIE®), a regional health exchange that links hospitals, long-term care facilities, community health clinics, and healthcare professionals in more than 53 Pennsylvania counties, so health information can follow patients across the care continuum. KeyHIE® is one of the nation’s largest and most advanced health information exchanges, featuring 3.7 million patients’ health records and nearly 8,000 active users from non-participating care providers.
As the largest primary care practice in Maryland, Johns Hopkins Health System cares for over 2.9 million patients every year. About 40% of Johns Hopkins patients are underrepresented minorities. JHHS also provides the majority of health care to the East Baltimore community, which represents a predominantly low-income African American population. Johns Hopkins boasts award-winning staff, with 21 current or former school of medicine scientists being Nobel laureates.
Located in Hershey, Pa, Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center serve over two million patients. Their visitors hail largely from rural areas but also represent small urban and suburban communities. A large portion of patients are economically disadvantaged, and a disproportionately large fraction is elderly. Penn State College of Medicine has a rich history in medicine and was the first in the nation to have a Department of Family and Community Medicine.
Rush University System for Health (RUSH) has been an anchor institution operated primarily out of the West Side of Chicago, Illinois. RUSH is an academic health system comprised of Rush University (Rush Medical College, College of Nursing, and College of Health Sciences), Rush University Medical Center (600 operating beds), Rush Oak Park Hospital (176 operating beds), and Rush Copley Medical Center (210 operating beds) as well as an extensive providers network and numerous outpatient care facilities. RUSH has extensive programs in patient care, education, research, and community service. As of December 2022, there were approximately 1.4 million covered lives with data in its electronic medical records along with over 100 primary providers.
Part of the 26th largest university in the U.S., the Lewis Katz School of Medicine and Temple University Health System serve a diverse population of at-risk, socioeconomically disadvantaged patients in North Philadelphia. Recent statistics indicate rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and HIV/AIDS are higher in North Philadelphia than elsewhere in the state, especially among Black and Hispanic patients. Philadelphia magazine has named 72 Temple physicians in its ‘Top Doctors’ of 2016.
University of Pittsburgh Medical School has been a leader in medical research since Jonas Salk developed the first polio vaccine here over 50 years ago. Today, the university remains one of the highest funded research-focused institutions in the country—a position it has retained since being one of the top 10 recipients of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding in 1998.
With 20 hospitals, 861 outpatient practices, and 30 outpatient physical rehabilitation facilities, UPMC is one of the largest and most diverse non-profit integrated delivery and financing systems in the nation, serving over 3.6 million patients each year. Over 530 UPMC physicians in 77 areas of expertise have been named a 2016 ‘Best Doctor’ by Best Doctors®.
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (OSUWMC) located in Columbus, OH is ranked #3 among the 104 national academic medical centers. The Ohio State University is one of the largest and most comprehensive universities in the United States and OSUWMC is one of only 26 hospitals with 10 or more nationally ranked specialties by U.S. News & World Report. OSUWMC is home to more than 20 research centers and institutes and 25 core research laboratories. As central Ohio’s Best Hospital, OSUWMC is also the first in Ohio to receive the HIMSS Stage 7 award for the progress on the Electronic Medical Records Adoption Model.
The University of Michigan has a rich, 200-year history focused on creating brighter futures. Numbers include 97 grad programs in the top 10, #3 best college for your money, 97% freshman retention, 275 degree programs, and #1 public research university in the U.S. with $1.48B in research expenditures. Michigan Medicine includes the #5 best hospital in the U.S. We advance health to serve Michigan and the world, by treating millions of patients, conducting hundreds of research projects, and educating thousands of tomorrow’s medical professionals every year.
Each of these sites brings a long history of high-quality research and clinical care as well as exciting new opportunities to PaTH.