Aria Health

Aria Health
Torresdale campus in September 2013
Geography
Location	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Organization
Funding	Non-profit hospital
Hospital type	Teaching
Affiliated university	Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Services
Emergency department	Level II trauma center
Helipad	yes
Beds	855 (total)
History
Founded	1902
Links
Website	www.ariahealth.org
Lists	Hospitals in Pennsylvania

Aria Health, formerly called Frankford Health Systems, is a healthcare system in Northeast Philadelphia and Lower Bucks County. It consists of three hospitals and a number of outpatient clinics. With 4,025 employees, Aria Health is the 14th largest private employer in the city of Philadelphia.

Aria Health operates several residency training programs for osteopathic physicians (DO). The residencies are accredited by the American Osteopathic Association.

The Frankford campus of Aria Health opened on July 4, 1903. The Frankford campus is a general medical and surgical hospital with 485 beds. In the last year with data available, the hospital had 131,188 emergency room visits, and performed 7,686 inpatient and 11,561 outpatient surgeries. Aria Health - Frankford is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF).

In 1977, the Torresdale campus of Aria Health opened in northeast Philadelphia. It is a 258-bed hospital, and a Level II trauma center. The Torresdale campus has a 1,300 car parking garage. Aria Health also operates an urgent care clinics in the Torresdale area.

Work began in 2013 for a new emergency room and parking garage at the Torresdale campus, at a cost of $37 million. The expansion will increase the size of the emergency room to 42 beds.

In 1999, the health system acquired Delaware Valley Medical Center, which is now called Aria Health-Bucks County. It is a 112-bed hospital located in Langhorne, Pennsylvania.

Aria Health sought to build a new 229-bed facility in Lower Makefield to replace Bucks County Hospital. Local residents opposed this project, due to concerns about traffic congestion. In 2013, Aria Health proposed news plans for a "health care village," a facility offering multiple health care services, which may have lower impact on the environment and traffic congestion.