Shaping Our Future: Chester County Q&A

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Penn Medicine is the brand for all University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) health care entities in addition to the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM).

UPHS is a comprehensive health system that includes inpatient and outpatient care facilities at numerous campuses/locations across the region. These entities include Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP), Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (PPMC), Pennsylvania Hospital (PAH), Chester County Hospital (CCH), Clinical Care Associates (CCA), Penn Home Care/Hospice Services (HCHS), Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania (CPUP) as well as UPHS Corporate Shared Services (CORP).

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Thursday, October 3, 2013

Do we anticipate there will be job loss as a result of CCH joining UPHS?

Keith Kasper
SVP and CFO, UPHS

The best way to preserve jobs is to build patient programs. We expect entity management teams to carefully monitor FTEs and allocate staffing resources to support the needs of patients and their families and to be flexible in staffing as patient activity fluctuates.