Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals Ranked Best in Philadelphia for Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation in 2008 Survey by U.S.
News & World Report
(Published 7-18-2008) Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals has again been ranked as the top hospital in Philadelphia for
orthopaedics and rehabilitation medicine by U.S. News & World Report in their 2008 Best Hospitals survey. This ranking translates
into the 15th best hospital in the nation for orthopaedic surgery and the 12th best in the U.S. for rehabilitation medicine.
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Ranked Best in Philadelphia for Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation in 2007 Survey by U.S.News
& World Report
(Published: 07-16-2007) Thomas Jefferson University Hospital has again been ranked as the top hospital in Philadelphia for
orthopaedics and rehabilitation medicine by U.S.News & World Report in their 2007 Best Hospitals survey.
Jefferson Completes Deal to Acquire Wills Eye Inpatient and Residency Programs(Published 7-14-06) Wills Eye Hospital of Philadelphia will transfer responsibility for its inpatient and ophthalmology residency
programs to its longstanding partners, Thomas Jefferson University and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, effective July
1, 2006.
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A Sharper Focus(Published 6-20-05, Philadelphia Inquirer) Precision is everything when it comes to shooting radiation into your skull, so
Marvin Kohn submitted unquestioningly as radiation therapists fitted a webbed plastic mask over his face.
It pinned him so tightly to a treatment couch within a sleek linear accelerator that his head couldn't move more than a millimeter
and a half. Then the therapists at Jefferson Hospital for Neurosciences used lime-green lasers that crisscrossed his forehead
to align his body for treatment.
A "benign" tumor had been growing slowly around Kohn's optic nerve for years. He now had only peripheral vision in his right
eye. Unchecked, the tumor could blind both eyes.
Until recently, Kohn would have had few options. Any surgical or radiation treatment would have carried a bigger risk of destroying
what little vision remained in his right eye. But precise machines like this one and a technique pioneered at Jefferson now
make it possible to zap the tumor with large amounts of radiation while sparing crucial nerves and tissue nearby.
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Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Ranked Best Hospital in Philadelphia for Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Medicine by
U.S.News & World Report
