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Magee Rehabilitation Hospital |
| Address |
1513 Race Street |
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Philadelphia |
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Pennsylvania |
| Country |
USA |
| Post Code |
19102 1177 |
| Phone |
215 587 3117 |
| Fax |
215 568 3736 |
| Email |
hskoczen@mageerehab.org |
| Website |
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About Magee Rehabilitation Hospital
** MISSION **
The mission of Magee Rehabilitation is to improve the quality of life of persons with disabilities by providing high quality physical and cognitive rehabilitation services.
** VISION **
We will be a preeminent, independent provider of physical and cognitive rehabilitation services within the global market. We will accomplish our vision by:
* Delivering clinical care that sets a world community standard for excellence
as measured by outcomes
* Sustaining the highest levels of patient, family, and referral source
satisfaction
* Being the employer of choice thus attracting and retaining the most
competent, productive work force.
* Engaging in strategic partnerships that achieve sustainable clinical
outcomes at a lower cost than our competitors.
Success in attaining the vision will be gauged by
* Attainment of business and financial goals without reduction in either
quality or patient satisfaction
* Maintaining name equity and reputation
* Recruitment and retention of competent, caring, and effective employees
* Magee being sought out as a strategic partner
* An increase in market share
** VALUES **
At the root of all of Magee’s accomplishments, are the values, and more specifically the traits and behaviors, of the Magee associates. As fundamental as this is, a committed focus on these traits and behaviors is a prerequisite for constantly improving the quality that is linked to our clinical and customer service performance. Our values must become engrained within us all such that, from day one at Magee, our associates will deliver value through their demonstration of:
* Excellence
* Honesty
* Compassion
* Creativity
* Teamwork
* Confidentiality
* Stewardship
* Self Development
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History Of Magee Rehabilitation Hospital
** History of Magee **
Anna Justina Magee was a fifth generation descendant of Johann Christian and Christina Kneass who arrived in Philadelphia from Rotterdam in September 1753. Miss Magee was born on January 21, 1843, the fourth daughter and one of seven children of James and Caroline Magee.
James Magee and his business partner George Taber manufactured saddlery hardware at 4th and Market Streets, and found a very popular outlet for their goods in New Orleans. As their Southern trade flourished, they invested in lands in the Southern states. Soon, they formed another firm bearing the Magee name in New Orleans while continuing to do business in Philadelphia.
James Magee retired from the business in 1847 to pursue other interests. Known as The Father of the Pennsylvania Railroad, he was one of its incorporators and first directors. Besides other railroad interests, he founded and served as the first president of Westmoreland Coal Company. He was on its Board of Directors until his death in 1878.
During the same period, he was a vestryman of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church at 19 South 10th Street in Philadelphia, where Anna Magee also worshiped and, in tribute to her father, later became one of its major benefactors.
As an adult Miss Magee was active in many religious and civic organizations, including the Acorn Club, the Philadelphia Society of Colonial Dames of America, the Philadelphia Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Associate Committee of Women to the Board of Trustees of the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art, and the Historical and Genealogical Societies of Pennsylvania. Despite these activities, Anna Magee lived very privately at 1720 Walnut Street until she died in 1923 at the age of 80.
In her Will, in memory of her parents, she endowed the Magee Professorship of Medicine at The Jefferson Medical College. And, with a gift of $1,285,000, she established what is now Magee Rehabilitation Hospital.
Anna Magee believed that the City's hospital wards were overcrowded because needy patients, although they could not resume their normal occupations or duties, remained there too long after passing the initial stage of acute illness or injury. She also did not want patients' families to be burdened with their support. She envisioned a hospital for convalescents--one, she stated that should ensure "the highest degree of reasonable comfort and healthfulness," in a "stately and dignified" building in which "no money should be misused for architectural ornament."
Under Chairman C. Stevenson Newhall, M.D., the first Board meeting took place on June 2, 1925. A committee was appointed to study the will, survey hospital needs, and come up with the best plan to follow. At following meetings the Board decided that construction should not begin until $2.5 million had been accrued, and that money for the site and building should come from income, not principal holdings in the estate.
By 1937 the funds were in hand, but a planned purchase of a hospital at 17th and Summer Streets was not completed because the costs of renovation were too high. Instead, in 1939, the Board agreed to purchase a tract of land in Roxborough adjoining Fairmount Park.
But the crush of high costs, scarce materials and labor shortages during and well after World War II made it virtually impossible to begin a building program. In 1953 the Fairmount Park property was sold, and a search was conducted to look for a site more centrally located to the City's hospitals. However, hospital conditions had changed greatly since the time of Anna Magee's death. Also, World War II greatly changed the way medical professionals viewed treating seriously injured returning GIs.
Dr. Howard A. Rusk, of the Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in New York City, demonstrated that rehabilitation, not convalescence, was better able to restore soldiers to their former abilities. Also, Frank Krusen, M.D., called The Father of Physical Medicine, was developing theories and treatments in physical medicine while treating patients with disabilities and chronic diseases at the Mayo Clinic.
In 1954, the Orphan's Court of Philadelphia permitted the use of the Magee Trust Fund to establish a rehabilitation center, ruling that rehabilitation was now seen as a dynamic form of convalescent care and that such service was consistent with the wishes of Anna Magee.
The search for a founding director of the hospital led to H. Frazer Parry, M.D., who had studied with Drs. Rusk and Krusen. He assumed the post in September 1955, setting up office space at 1500 Walnut Street where he worked with a team to find an appropriate building for the hospital.
A former factory at 1513 Race Street was ideal because of its central location, open floor space, and relatively few walls that would have to be taken down. The building was purchased from American Meter Company, and construction and renovations began in December 1956. The total cost of the project, which was designed for 39 patients, amounted to about $2.5 million.
Opening ceremonies for Magee Memorial Hospital for Convalescents were held on March 9, 1958, and with a staff of 30 in place, the hospital, the first of its kind in Philadelphia, began admitting patients the very next day. In the first two years, approximately 57 percent of the care was free.
Leading the way in innovative techniques and rehabilitation therapy from the very beginning, Magee Rehabilitation is now acclaimed as one of the best rehabilitation hospitals in the nation, due to the vision of Anna Magee and her legacy to the community in the Philadelphia region.
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