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Penn Medicine wants stroke, heart, and other acute patients transferred to its hospitals as quickly as possible — for their health and its finances

The University of Pennsylvania Health System's Philadelphia hospitals offer specialized, complex services, and the nonprofit's finances depend on them because they bring in more revenue.

William Martin works in Penn's transfer center at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Wednesday, It’s where PennSTAR medical helicopters are directed, but also where transfers of all kinds to Penn's three Philadelphia hospitals are coordinated.
William Martin works in Penn's transfer center at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Wednesday, It’s where PennSTAR medical helicopters are directed, but also where transfers of all kinds to Penn's three Philadelphia hospitals are coordinated.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer