Active Recruiting Broadens Supplier Base
With its Supplier Diversity Program, Children’s Hospital has emphasized creating a registry of suppliers and contractors that mirrors the diversity of our employees, patient families, board of trustees and the communities we serve and support every day.
Minority Business Enterprises bring their skills and expertise to all areas of the hospital — from constructing new buildings, providing IT solutions to the CHOP enterprise to ensuring the necessary supplies are delivered to our many locations on time. Learn More
Partnership for Playgrounds
Collaboration among the Healthier Together Initiative at CHOP, the Trust for Public Land and Add B. Anderson Elementary School’s principal and other stakeholders — with design help from the school’s students — turned a half an acre of asphalt into a haven that supports active play and encourages spending time outdoors.
The project also brings a safe space to the Cobbs Creek neighborhood, providing a meeting place for community events beyond the school’s operations. Learn More
Working to Build a Future Workforce at CHOP
Part of CHOP's mission is to fill the registry of future healthcare workers with young people who reflect our diverse community and patient population. We have numerous programs that give youth from grade school through college opportunities to learn about the many roles across the institution — in patient care, administration, research and beyond.
Our robust internship programs, in particular, provide hands-on experience that can transform a student's career aspirations and prepare them for a job across the spectrum of healthcare. Learn More
Training at CHOP Is a Nationwide Draw
The nine REU interns for 2023 came from colleges that spanned the United States.
Safer Driving and Brain Injury Dominate Research Topics
Summer 2023 REU research topics included:
- Biomechanical Responses during Pre-Crash Maneuvers and Autonomous Driving Scenarios
- Understanding Eye-Glance Behaviors Among Young Drivers
- Analysis of Pediatric Occupant Kinematics and Kinetics in Motor Vehicle Crashes
- Social Equity and Spatial Effects on Safe Mobility
- Developing 3D-Printed Anthropomorphic Models to Improve Clinical Training
- Examining Learning to Drive, Risky Driving Behavior, and Crashes in Young Drivers
- Human Subject Study with Parents and Teens to Study Effectiveness of Driver Safety App
- Optimizing Concussion Care for Children and Adolescents
- Cognitive and Circuit Impairments Induced by Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
