Penn Medicine

Penn Medicine University City operates on Market Street in the University City section of West Philadelphia, within the University of Pennsylvania Health System. The building brings together outpatient specialty practices in one location, a few blocks from Penn's main hospital campus, so patients can see academic specialists, complete imaging, and receive treatment without going through a hospital setting. Penn Medicine has expanded this ambulatory model across the region as more specialty care has shifted out of inpatient settings.

Services typically include specialty physician practices across a range of disciplines, diagnostic imaging, laboratory services, radiation oncology, and infusion, with procedure suites for care that does not require an overnight stay. Nurses in ambulatory settings like this work in outpatient clinics, infusion and oncology services, procedural areas, and care coordination, managing scheduled patients rather than unpredictable inpatient acuity. The work centers on assessment, treatment administration, patient education, and follow-up across ongoing relationships, and hours tend to align with clinic schedules rather than rotating shifts. Penn Medicine employment gives nurses access to a large academic system, with internal movement possible between ambulatory sites and its hospitals.