The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, founded in 1855, provides paediatric care, research and clinical trials across a network of over 50 locations, employing more than 20,000 people.
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is the nation's first hospital devoted exclusively to the care of children. Founded in 1855 by three physicians as a 12-bed rowhouse, it now employs more than 20,000 people - among them nurses, doctors, researchers and therapists - and operates a network of over 50 locations throughout the region, serving families for more than 170 years.
CHOP's work spans pediatric clinical care, research and community access. Its clinical practice handles some of the most difficult paediatric health challenges, while its research arm runs laboratory-based disease studies and clinical trials, develops therapeutics and pursues work in genomic and personalised medicine, including therapies tailored to a child's genetic makeup and pioneering prenatal stem-cell transplantation. Community and family programmes extend the hospital's expertise beyond its own walls, with the stated aim of widening access to care and innovation.
Roles across the organisation cover clinical practice, research, laboratory science, therapy and support functions, with collaboration between clinicians and researchers a defining feature of the workplace. The mission is expressed in the hospital's own terms: to combine care with cures for children, including those whose families have exhausted other options. More information is available at https://chop.edu/.
