Graduate Hospital No More

While we’re just describing things however we feel like it today, let’s go with this: It appears Penn is not content to simply expand to the river in West Philly; today Graduate Hospital will re-open as Penn Medicine at Rittenhouse.

With the proposed foot bridge over the river and a new, hopefully non-scary South Street Bridge, will Penn one day stretch all the way into Center City? Who knows. For now people are content to spar over the name:

Technically, calling the new campus Penn Medicine at Rittenhouse is a bit of a stretch. The City Planning Commission says the official boundary of the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood stops a block north of the hospital, at South Street.

But naming the new place after its own neighborhood presented another set of problems. Stephen Singer, manager of research for the Center City District, said most people who live there call the neighborhood the Graduate Hospital area or G-HO.

Maybe people will start calling the neighborhood P-Med? Brad, when you’re back from your honeymoon (congrats!), get on it.