Methodist Hospital is a hospital in South Philadelphia, affiliated with Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience and Thomas Jefferson University. Incorporated in 1881 and opened in 1892, Methodist serves patients in Philadelphia and the surrounding communities.HistoryMethodist Hospital was founded by Dr. Scott Stewart, a Methodist Physician in Philadelphia, who dedicated $250,000 in his will to assist in building the hospital and a nurses training school. The hospital was incorporated in 1881 and ground was broken in 1888. The hospital and nursing school opened in 1892 as Methodist Episcopal Hospital.The hospital affiliated with Jefferson Medical College in 1950 and becomes a division of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in 1996.Departments and ServicesMethodist Hospital provides medical services across a number of specialized centers, programs, departments and divisions. Anesthesiology Diabetes Center Emergency Department at Jefferson Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases Gastroenterology and Hepatology Gynecology & Women's Services Headache Center Hospital Medicine Internal Medicine JeffFIT (Outpatient Rehabilitation & Physical Therapy) Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Medical Oncology Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery Center Neurology Outpatient Lab Radiology Rehabilitation Medicine Senior Adult Oncology Center Shoulder and Elbow Center Surgery Women's Diagnostic Center
