Drexel University has decided not to move its medical labs to Montgomery County and will instead remain at the former Hahnemann University Hospital site on North Broad Street while a new research building is constructed on its University City campus. Drexel has signed a lease for at least six years for the entire 590,000-square-foot New College Building at 15th and Vine Streets, said Alan .
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It’s a huge problem not just in the Latino community, but also in the Black community.
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This is a story about those hospitals, largely government-funded, whose primary mission is to care for the poor and uninsured. They’re called safety-net hospitals.
BRAD SPELLBERG, M.D., Chief Med. Director, LAC+USC:
Why are safety nets hit the hardest? Because our patients are vulnerable. We serve a community of working poor. We serve people who are working essential jobs.
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Homeless patients. Patients with mental illness. Substance abuse addiction disorder. We are expected to care for the patients the other hospitals won’t care for.