Editing Pennsylvania Hospital (section)

== Historical Significance ==

Pennsylvania Hospital pioneered American hospital medicine through numerous firsts:

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! Year !! Achievement
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| 1751 || First chartered hospital in America
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| 1752 || First patient admitted
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| 1756 || Pine Building East Wing completed; Dr. Thomas Bond performs first lithotomy (stone extraction) in the colonies
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| 1762 || First hospital medical library established
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| 1783 || Benjamin Rush joins staff, begins psychiatric reforms
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| 1804 || First surgical amphitheater opens; first hospital apothecary established
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| 1812 || First American psychiatry textbook published (by Rush)
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| 1817 || Benjamin West's masterpiece installed
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The hospital's innovative matching-grant funding model, developed by Franklin, became a template for philanthropic funding used worldwide to this day.