2005 Archive

Community Health Fair at Methodist Hospital Saturday, May 7
Methodist Hospital’s annual Health Fair will be on Saturday, May 7, and combines free health screenings for adults as well as activities for the family. Health screenings will include blood pressure screening, prostate cancer PSA testing, foot screening, glucose and cholesterol screening and more.

No one is immune
(Published 03-10-2005, South Philadelphia Review) Peter Honig, M.D., assistant director of general medicine, Methodist Hospital, says this is the season for all kinds of viruses.

City Council President Anna Verna and Councilman James Kenney Celebrate the Opening of a New Patient Floor at Methodist Hospital (Published 2-28-2005)

City Council Representatives Join Methodist Hospital Employees to Formally Open its Newest Patient Floor Showing the New Face of Health Care in South Philadelphia (Published 2-23-2005)

Growing to Meet a Need
(Published 1-7-2005) After spending the past decade getting smaller, a growing number of hospitals in the Philadelphia-area are spending millions on expansion and renovation projects to add beds.