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Description

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Mission Statement
In 1813 the founders of Friends Hospital penned this simple yet wonderfully benevolent mission statement

To provide for the suitable accommodation of persons who are or may be deprived of the use of their reason and the maintenance of an asylum for their reception which is intended to furnish besides requisite medical aid such tender sympathetic attention as may soothe their agitated minds and under the Divine Blessing facilitate their recovery

Many things have changed at Friends Hospital since 1813 but this mission statement has been perfectly preserved It has served as a great foundation and to it we have added a modern medical approach to the treatment of mental emotional and behavioral illnesses

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History

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Friends History Timeline
1813 Friends Hospital founded by the Quakers Originally called The Asylum for Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason

1817 Additional buildings allow for up to 50 patients

1827 Two additional patient wings are added

1879 Friends Hospital builds its first greenhouse to enhance a long tradition of horticultural therapy

1880 Additions are made to accommodate 90 additional patients

1911 The Asylum as it was known expanded its property holdings to roughly 100 contiguous acres

1916 Friends Hospital acquired a 326acre farm in Trevose

1920 The Trevose farms Bensalem Mansion is opened to patients as a convalescent home

1970s1980s Bonsall and Tuke Buldings are completed pushing capacity to 192 where it remains today

1980 The Greystone Program opens on hospital grounds

1989 Hillside House is built as a companion home to the Greystone Program

1996 The Eating Disorders Program opened treating adolescents and adults
and is one of the only programs in the area to serve children and males with eating disorders

1998 Larkspur Crisis Response Center opened providing treatment for more than six thousand inpatients each year and an additional 6000 evaluations and referrals

1999 Friends Hospital was designated a National Historic Landmark by the US Department of the Interior

2000 US News and World Report ranked Friends Hospital as one of the nations top psychiatric hospitals

2002 Six Friends Hospital psychiatrists were ranked among the regions Top Docs by Philadelphia Magazine

2010 Friends Hospital designed and opened Philadelphias first inpatient Recovery Oriented Unit