Organization

Albert Einstein Healthcare Network (AEHN) has earned its reputation for quality, excellence, leadership and innovation through more than 140 years of service to the community and a mission to heal by providing exceptionally intelligent and responsive care for as many people as possible. AEHN is a private, not-for-profit organization with several major facilities and many outpatient centers located throughout the Philadelphia region.

AEHN Locations

Albert Einstein Medical Center is a 772-bed tertiary-care teaching hospital located in North Philadelphia, which offers a broad range of services, specializing in behavioral health, geriatric care, heart care, kidney and pancreas disease and transplants, liver disease and transplants, neurosurgery, orthopaedics, and women’s and children’s services.  The hospital has an accredited Level I Regional Resource Trauma Center and one of the largest, busiest emergency rooms in Philadelphia.  On average, the medical center handles more than 85,000 Emergency Department visits each year, and more than 12,000 are treated in the trauma center.   

Einstein Center One is located in Northeast Philadelphia and offers easy access to primary care and specialty doctors for people living in Northeast Philadelphia and Lower Bucks and Montgomery Counties.  Housing primary care and specialty care physician offices and an ambulatory surgery center, Center One offers services that include oncology, diagnostic radiology, nuclear radiology, cardiology, gastroenterology, urology, obstetrics/gynecology, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, psychiatry and dentistry.

MossRehab, located at both Albert Einstein Medical Center and Einstein at Elkins Park, has repeatedly been recognized by U.S.News & World Report as one of the nation’s best medical rehabilitation providers.  Special programs include the Drucker Brain Injury Center, Stroke Center (one of the first in the nation to receive accreditation by CARF as a stroke specialty program), Amputee Center, and the MossRehab Driving School. MossRehab is also a federally designated Model System of Care for traumatic brain injury.

Einstein at Elkins Park is a 60-bed general acute care hospital located on a 30-acre suburban campus in Montgomery County. The hospital offers a full range of services, including a 24-hour Emergency Department staffed by board-certified emergency medicine physicians, highly skilled emergency nurses and key specialists on-call.  The Elkins Park location also provides a broad spectrum of inpatient and outpatient surgical services, diagnostic imaging services and general nuclear medicine and cardiology services.

Belmont Behavioral Health is an integrated system providing mental health and addictions programs for children, adolescents and adults of all ages. Services span the full continuum of care – crisis intervention, psychiatric emergencies and inpatient and outpatient treatment. Specialized services include those for children and adults with alternative lifestyles eating disorders, addictive disorders, substance abuse, geriatric psychological and psychiatric problems, and schizophrenia. Belmont Behavioral Health’s main inpatient locations include Albert Einstein Medical Center, Belmont Center for Comprehensive Treatment and Belmont Residence at Germantown.

Germantown Community Health Services is a medical campus committed to offering high-quality primary care, specialty care, behavioral health, and long-term care. This facility offers an Emergency Room staffed by board-certified Emergency Medicine physicians providing medical emergency services 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Germantown location also has a Crisis Response Center that provides emergency psychiatric services to children and adults, and a 36-bed Long Term Structured Residence for adults with chronic behavioral health care needs.  Patients can also access cardiology, ophthalmology and dentistry services.

Willowcrest is a restorative care facility located on Einstein’s main campus, providing physician-directed, skilled nursing care and rehabilitation to help patients return to independence following hospitalization.

The Victor Center for Jewish Genetic Diseasesopened in 2002 at Albert Einstein Healthcare Network in Philadelphia and is named for its founder Lois B. Victor, a mother who lost two daughters to a Jewish genetic disease. One in five Ashkenazi Jews is a carrier of a mutation for a Jewish genetic diseases; the Victor Centers screens for 11 Jewish genetic diseases and provides affordable, accessible genetic counseling, screening and educational programs.  The Einstein model was so successful that a second center was established in 2005 at Tufts Medical Center in Boston and a third in 2007 at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.  

Residency/academic training

Albert Einstein provides the largest independent academic training program in the Delaware Valley, with more than 350 residents across 27 residency and fellowship programs. These highly regarded programs provide depth and diversity in medical education and training for the next generation of physicians.  Einstein offers graduate medical programs in more than 23 different medical specialties and subspecialties, including Internal medicine, radiology, psychiatry, surgery, obstetrics/gynecology, dentistry, podiatry and orthopaedic surgery, among others.  Albert Einstein Medical Center is a major teaching affiliate of Jefferson Medical College; Einstein residents teach and supervise Jefferson medical students, and Einstein medical staff members hold faculty appointments at Jefferson.

Research

Einstein’s leadership in clinical research dates back to 1916 with efforts to control an outbreak of infantile paralysis.  Einstein’s integrated approach focusing on research, quality and patient care is reflected in intensive clinical and scientific research conducted by some of the world’s top medical professionals.  Currently, there are 400+ active clinical trials underway throughout the Einstein network, in a wide variety of investigative areas, including AIDS/HIV, cancer, cognitive neuroscience, emergency medicine, gastroenterology, orthopaedic surgery, pain management, psychiatry and behavioral health, radiation oncology and transplantation, among others.

Physicians

Approximately 1,200 staff and voluntary physicians

Employees    

Approximately 6,000

Leadership

Barry Freedman, President & CEO; A. Susan Bernini, Chief Operating Officer

History

For more than 140 years, Einstein physicians and staff have been leaders in the art and science of healing. Since the founding of the Jewish Hospital, Einstein has remained at the forefront of medical science. Einstein physicians pioneered and perfected many of today’s widely practiced medical techniques and continue to develop new strategies to meet current and future healthcare challenges.

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