Chestnut Hill Local Local Photo
LettersOpinionNewsLocal LifeThis WeekSportsNews MakersAbout Us
   July 29, 2004 Issue

 

In The News...

Sale of hospital expected by November

By KATIE WORRALL

With the sale of Chestnut Hill HealthCare in November come prospects for enhanced clinical programs and additional physicians.

The boards of Chestnut Hill Hospital and  Chestnut Hill Springfield Center — together with  boards of their parent entity, Chestnut Hill  HealthCare, and Chestnut Hill Health System, an entity that looks into issues faced by the health system — approved the sale of the facilities to a joint venture formed by Vanguard Health System and the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS)  last week.

“We’re looking at enhancing existing programs and adding new programs in association with Penn’s clinical resources,” Herbert F. Goodrich, chairman of the Chestnut...


More News...

In Sports...

Cool Local Kids

Keeping cool during the summer are two local synchronized skating teams at the Wissahickon Skating Club in Chestnut Hill. Combining several skaters on a team and skating “in sync” is what this sport is all about. Synchronized skating, first organized in 1954, is one of the fastest growing disciplines in the sport of figure skating. Seen here are (top row, from left) Melanie Bavaria, Julia Stepanuk, Natalie Bartlett, Devon Winter, Deborah Mustafa, Maura Boughter and Megan Ware; (middle row, from left) Susie Thompson, Carolina Concannon, Emily McGowan, Olivia Haley-Schmidt...


More Sports...


In LocalLife...

Chestnut Hill’s premier
world-traveler Carlson Wagonlit’s Charles Weston
has visited 120 countries

by LEN LEAR

Charles Weston wants you to see the world but not just its museums and cathedrals. Weston is the Godfather of ‘edge.’ David Letterman would probably call him exotic-orific. He wants you not just to experience something compelling but to go through the looking glass. In fact, the exciting adventure trips he promotes (he will not do corporate travel because “I do not want to be re-doing their plane tickets all the time”) remind me of this wry observation about camping: “You work hard all year so you can go away for one week and act like a homeless person.”

Weston, 61, a resident of Flourtown, owns and operates Carlson Wagonlit Travel (“Wagonlit” is the misspelling of a French word for Pullman car), which has been at 8138...


More LocalLife...

© 2004 Chestnut Hill Local. All Rights Reserved.

Letters | Opinion | News | LocalLife | This Week | Sports | News Makers | About Us

Archives | Subscribe | Classifieds | Advertising