Reading Hospital – Tower Health was recognized by Newsweek as one of the World’s Best Hospitals in 2024. Healthgrades® recognized Reading Hospital as one of America’s 50 Best Hospitals for 2024. For three years in a row (2022-2024) Reading Hospital has been in the top one percent of hospitals nationwide for overall clinical performance. It is also listed as one of America’s 100 Best Hospitals for eight consecutive years.
Tower Health is a regional integrated healthcare system that offers compassionate, high-quality, leading-edge healthcare and wellness services to communities in Berks, Chester, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties. With over 10,000 team members and a combined 1,200 beds, Tower Health consists of Reading Hospital in West Reading; Phoenixville Hospital in Phoenixville; Pottstown Hospital in Pottstown; and St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, in partnership with Drexel University.
Tower Health is strongly committed to academic medicine and training, including multiple residency and fellowship programs, the Drexel University College of Medicine at Tower Health, and the Reading Hospital School of Health Sciences in West Reading.
Reading Hospital is a Magnet recognized 697-bed facility that is home to many top-tier specialty care centers, including: Reading HealthPlex, McGlinn Cancer Institute, Miller Regional Heart Center, an emergency department that includes a Level I Trauma Center, and the Beginnings Maternity Center, which houses the region’s only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Reading Hospital has been recognized for its quality outcomes and clinical expertise across service lines.
Accredited continuously since 2005, Reading Hospital Trauma Center is the first and only trauma center in Berks County and geographically distant from other tertiary centers. The RH Emergency Department (ED) is the largest in PA and is within the top 10 busiest in the nation with well over 100,000 ED visits annually.