Affiliates
Alfred I. duPont Institute
 The Alfred I. duPont Institute is a private, nonprofit, fully accredited teaching hospital with a 55-year history of caring for children. An operating entity of the Alfred I. duPont Trust, the Institute was founded in 1940 as a hospital for crippled children. For more than four decades, services were primarily orthopaedic. In the 1980s, with the construction of a new, modern facility, the hospital began to expand its mission to serve more children in more ways and now provides a full range of healthcare services for children from birth through age 17.
Situated on the 300-acre Nemours estate, the Institute maintains 128 beds for children with acute, chronic and rehabilitative needs, as well as more than 40 outpatient programs. The staff deals with many highly complex pediatric cases. Hundreds of medical students, residents, fellows, nursing and allied-health students train at the Institute each year.
Residents are the most senior team members, who work with and learn from staff surgeons. The senior
resident serves as chief of the service performing or assisting in all operative procedures. Weekly conferences round out the didactic schedule.
In partnership with Jefferson, the hospital supports a significant research program that includes such areas as applied science and engineering, as well as developmental biology. Recent Institute expansions include a hematology-oncology outpatient suite, an enlarged emergency department and a program of satellite sites for underserved children.
Frankford Hospital
Frankford Torresdale Hospital is a 250 bed community hospital located 15 minutes away from the sponsoring institution. The patient population is varied, and the case mix includes broad based general, vascular, laparoscopic and general thoracic surgery.
Methodist Hospital
 Methodist is a busy, community teaching hospital located at Broad and Wolf Streets
in the heart of South Philadelphia. Since 1892, it has provided high-quality care to its community. It offers a range of preventive care, acute inpatient and outpatient services, skilled nursing, rehabilitation and home care.
With board-certified physicians in a variety of specialities, Methodist trains more residents and students than any other community hospital in the area. As the sole provider of maternity services in South Philadelphia, it provides high-risk maternity and neonatology, including a NICU. Residents participate in a significant number of cardiothoracic, vascular and colorectal cases and actively manage and run the various services.
Methodist's Chest Pain Emergency Center is one of only a handful of such centers in the country and complements its Cardiac ICU and Cardiac Rehabilitation Program. The hospital has one of the busiest emergency departments in the city, as well as a GI-Procedure Center for treating gastrointestinal diseases. Its complete radiologic services include MRI, CT, ultrasound and nuclear medicine.
Staff members who are usually on staff at both Jefferson and Methodist teach the residents. The program holds weekly residents' conferences and morbidity and mortality conferences.
Wilmington Veterans Administration Hospital
 Located in Delaware, the Wilmington Veterans Administration Hospital is a 336-bed, acute-care facility, with a 60-bed nursing-care unit and a large outpatient surgical clinic. This VA hospital performs about two thousand major and minor operations each year, in addition to 600 outpatient surgeries. Founded in 1948, the hospital serves a largely geriatric population from Delaware, southeastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland.
The surgical staff gives residents comprehensive responsibilities for patients, from admittance to discharge. The Wilmington VA offers opportunity for hands-on experience with patients suffering from multiple problems. Head and neck oncology is one the hospital's special interests. Faculty members hold clinics three times a week and the program offers conferences with outside speakers regularly.
The Veterans Administration Hospital also features a freestanding research facility. While on rotations, residents may choose to participate in
a variety of cooperative and national research projects.
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