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A Penn Medicine and CHOP team will seek to develop treatments for three rare, incurable genetic diseases with the help of a $26 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

The Savetts are not a patient family at CHOP, yet they wanted to do something when their daughter, Rachel, died suddenly 23 years ago from anaphylactic shock.

The Wawa Foundation brings the Coffee and Care Cart to CHOP’s Middleman Family Pavilion.

When families are faced with the loss of a child, CHOP is there.

From the time she was a high school student in Nigeria, Ruth Abaya, MD, MPH, wanted to be a physician. She earned a medical degree from Northwestern University and completed a residency at Boston Children's Hospital before fellowship training at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

CHOP’s Center for Health Equity is working with community members to identify and eliminate health disparities.

On May 25, 2023, Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ODEI) at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia held its inaugural DEI Breakthrough Makers Summit. This hybrid event was attended by more than 350 CHOP employees and raised awareness and understanding of DEI initiatives at CHOP. 

For the third year in a row, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has been selected as one of the 50 most community-minded companies in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware for 2023.