Funding Non-profit hospital Emergency department Level II trauma center | Hospital type Teaching Helipad yes | |
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Location Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Affiliated university Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine | ||
Aria Health, formerly called Frankford Health Systems, is a healthcare system in Northeast Philadelphia and Lower Bucks County. It consists of three hospitals and a number of outpatient clinics. With 4,025 employees, Aria Health is the 14th largest private employer in the city of Philadelphia.
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Aria Health operates several residency training programs for osteopathic physicians (DO). The residencies are accredited by the American Osteopathic Association.
Frankford campus
The Frankford campus of Aria Health opened on July 4, 1903. The Frankford campus is a general medical and surgical hospital with 485 beds. In the last year with data available, the hospital had 131,188 emergency room visits, and performed 7,686 inpatient and 11,561 outpatient surgeries. Aria Health - Frankford is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF).
Torresdale campus
In 1977, the Torresdale campus of Aria Health opened in northeast Philadelphia. It is a 258-bed hospital, and a Level II trauma center. The Torresdale campus has a 1,300 car parking garage. Aria Health also operates an urgent care clinics in the Torresdale area.
Work began in 2013 for a new emergency room and parking garage at the Torresdale campus, at a cost of $37 million. The expansion will increase the size of the emergency room to 42 beds.
Bucks County Hospital
In 1999, the health system acquired Delaware Valley Medical Center, which is now called Aria Health-Bucks County. It is a 112-bed hospital located in Langhorne, Pennsylvania.
Aria Health sought to build a new 229-bed facility in Lower Makefield to replace Bucks County Hospital. Local residents opposed this project, due to concerns about traffic congestion. In 2013, Aria Health proposed news plans for a "health care village," a facility offering multiple health care services, which may have lower impact on the environment and traffic congestion.
Graduate medical education
Aria Health operates a number of osteopathic residency programs accredited by the American Osteopathic Association. Aria Health hosts residency programs in family medicine, internal medicine, emergency medicine, and podiatric surgery, including two combined residency programs: one in internal and emergency medicine and another in family and emergency medicine.
Aria Health also runs a critical care fellowship program.