South Philadelphia Community Health and Literacy Center

The South Philadelphia Community Health and Literacy Center, a first-of-its-kind facility that houses the pediatric primary care practice plus Philadelphia Health Center 2, a branch of the Philadelphia Free Library and the DiSilvestro Recreation Center.

Building the facility required collaboration with the City of Philadelphia, the Free Library of Philadelphia and families in the neighborhood. The new 96,000-square-foot, three-story structure, built by Perryman Building and Construction, a Philadelphia-based minority-owned business, sits on the site that had previously housed the three non-CHOP entities. The Hospital worked to build trust with those in that community.