Doylestown Hospital has cared for the people of our community and the wider region for more than 100 years. During that time, the Village Improvement Association of Doylestown (VIA) and generations of Boards of Trustees worked together to build and grow the area’s first emergency hospital into a regional leader, providing best-in-class care in more than 50 specialties while maintaining a culture and reputation for providing compassionate care with a personal touch.
Today, Doylestown Health is part of the world-renowned University of Pennsylvania Health System, reaffirming our commitment to caring for the health and well-being of our community with new strength and support.
“In joining with Penn Medicine, we are writing the next chapter in our storied history that began more than 100 years ago,” said Penn Medicine Doylestown Health President and CEO, Jim Brexler, “Doylestown Hospital was founded with the principal mission to bring quality healthcare close to home for the patients we serve, and I can think of no better way to do that than by joining our region’s leading academic medical center.”
Since becoming Doylestown’s first hospital in 1923, this organization’s leadership has identified and developed new services to respond to the needs of our growing community. When Doylestown Hospital was built upon a simple yet brilliant premise: patients heal faster when they are known, cherished, and cared for in the community they call home. This philosophy has driven our mission to ensure that the health and well-being of our community is foremost in all that we do. These efforts have seen Doylestown Hospital grow into a community teaching hospital with 247 beds and a medical staff of more than 435 physicians in over 50 specialties who serve the region in outstanding fashion, providing sophisticated, personal care – close to home.
Doylestown Hospital consistently maintains the highest emphasis on patient safety, standing as the only hospital in Pennsylvania and among just 30% of hospitals nationwide who have achieved 18 consecutive “A” grades for patient safety as measured by the Leapfrog Group.
As a destination hospital for the highest level of heart and vascular care in the nation, we offer the newest advances in technology and surgical procedures, ranging from technically-advanced, minimally invasive valve replacements and vascular procedures to delicate open-heart surgeries to a robust cardiac rehabilitation program.
Our Cancer Institute is a Nationally Accredited Community Cancer Center by the American College of Surgeons (ACoS) Commission on Cancer, offering access to outstanding specialists and advanced screening, diagnostics, treatment and professional supportive services. In 2023, we earned a three-year accreditation from the National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer, a quality program of the American College of Surgeons, and a renewal from the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC), which acknowledged that the program maintains 100% compliance with the NAPBC’s Breast Program standards. We are a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence as recognized by the American College of Radiology.
We offer the most advanced technology for early lung cancer screening and diagnosis in the region. Our team uses the minimally invasive robotic-assisted bronchoscopy called the ION Endoluminal System, to find and biopsy smaller, early-stage lung cancer nodules.
We joined the ranks of the Philadelphia region’s teaching hospitals, welcoming our inaugural class of Family Medicine resident physicians in 2023. The residents rotate through various departments at Doylestown Hospital, as well as the hospital’s own dedicated outpatient Family Medicine Residency Practice.
We are also proud to join other health organizations in the Philadelphia area as a member of the Regional Coalition to Eliminate Race-Based Medicine. Convened in 2023, the Regional Coalition is working together to remove race “adjustments” from 15 commonly used clinical decision support tools that may adversely impact patients’ outcomes, working to phase out the use of race as a variable in some of the tools and collaborate on alternative best practices which do not reinforce a biological understanding of race.
Perhaps most importantly, we are proud to be an organization of individuals. It’s the people of Doylestown Hospital who represent our greatest strength. Our culture of caring and community is a promise that is realized through the people who serve this community – our Medical Staff, Associates, and volunteers. Now, backed by the quality, strength, and innovation of Penn Medicine, we will continue to accomplish the mission that a small but inspired group of women from Doylestown envisioned more than a century ago.
For the next century and beyond, Penn Medicine Doylestown Health will deliver personalized care of the highest quality, close to home.
