{"id":3760,"date":"2015-09-28T12:17:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T12:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/?p=3760"},"modified":"2025-11-12T16:45:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T16:45:33","slug":"einstein-medical-center-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/2015\/09\/28\/einstein-medical-center-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Einstein Medical Center History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Illustration of Jewish Hospital and Home designed by Frank Furness and George W. Hewitt, Fourteenth Annual Report of the Jewish Hospital, 1879<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

On September 23, 1865, Jewish leaders in Philadelphia incorporated the Jewish Hospital Association of Philadelphia, now known as Einstein Medical Center. In the aftermath of the Civil War, the association\u2019s officers, led by Alfred T. Jones, Isadore Binswanger, Samuel Weil, and Mayer Sulzberger, sought to erect a hospital under Jewish auspices in response to the lack medical care afforded to members of the Jewish community and the employment discrimination Jews were subject to at other area hospitals. The preamble to the constitution of the Jewish Hospital Association states \u201cIt is the duty of Israelites to take care of the suffering and needy ones among them, and as the sick are especially objects of charity and public solicitude, and since there is no institution now in existence within the State of Pennsylvania under the control of Israelites wherein they can place their sick, and where these can enjoy during their illness all the benefits and consolations of our religion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On August 6, 1866, the Jewish Hospital opened for the reception of patients. The original building was located at Haverford Road and 56th Street in West Philadelphia with room for twenty patients\u2013ten for the sick and ten for inmates of the Asylum for the Aged, Infirm, and Destitute. Philadelphia\u2019s Jewish Hospital was the third such hospital to be established in the United States after the Cincinnati Jewish Hospital (1849) and the Jews’ Hospital of New York (1852). In its first five months of operation, the hospital treated twenty-eight patients including three \u201cnon-Israelites.\u201d Nonsectarian from its inception, the Jewish Hospital was committed to \u201creducing or eliminating the attitudes and prejudices that mixed medical practice with religious and moral views.\u201d Unlike other hospitals in Philadelphia at the time, the Jewish Hospital was \u201cwas free of charge to all poor and worthy applicants without regard to nationality or creed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Nurses, resident physician Dr. Edwin Jarecki, and Dr. Knipe, Jewish Hospital, York and Tabor Roads, 1896<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

To learn more about the history of the Albert Einstein Medical Center and its predecessor, the Jewish Hospital, use the hospital archives and these resources in the Special Collections Research Center<\/a>:   Mankind and Medicine: A History of Philadelphia’s Albert Einstein Medical Center<\/em> <\/a>by Maxwell Whiteman; Edwin A. Jarecki, M.D. Resident Physician Jewish Hospital of Philadelphia, 1892-1934<\/a><\/em> by William I. Heine; and History of the Jewish Hospital Association of Philadelphia<\/em> <\/a>by Henry N. Wessel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Jessica M. Lydon, Associate Archivist SCRC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On September 23, 1865, Jewish leaders in Philadelphia incorporated the Jewish Hospital Association of Philadelphia, now known as Einstein Medical Center. In the aftermath of the Civil War, the association\u2019s officers, led by Alfred T. Jones, Isadore Binswanger, Samuel Weil, and Mayer Sulzberger, sought to erect a hospital under Jewish auspices in response to the … Continue reading Einstein Medical Center History<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":987,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[19,25,24,16,6],"class_list":["post-3760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-news","tag-american-jewish-history","tag-history-news","tag-history-of-medicine","tag-philadelphia-history","tag-top-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/987"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3760"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5521,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions\/5521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}