HISTORY

The Chestnut Hill Health Care Foundation was created as a result of the sale of Chestnut Hill HealthCare to a joint venture between Community Health Systems, Inc. a for-profit health care system headquartered in Brentwood Tennessee and the University of Pennsylvania Health System.

Chestnut Hill HealthCare was an integrated health care system including the 100-year-old Chestnut Hill Hospital as well as Chestnut Hill Rehabilitation Hospital, and other related entities.

The Chestnut Hill Health Care Foundation has received the charitable assets of Chestnut Hill HealthCare as well as assets received from the sale. These assets include previously donated gifts, including bequests, trusts and endowment funds. The Chestnut Hill Health Care Foundation will use these and additional donated funds to further the health and well being of the communities of northwest Philadelphia and Montgomery County.