Mayor Parker signs bills expanding funding program to children’s hospitals, authorizing Northeast health center

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The lobby of St. Christopher's Hospital for Children buzzed with excitement Thursday morning as physicians, nurses, and patients awaited Mayor Cherelle L. Parker to celebrate legislation that will bring millions of dollars to the financially struggling hospital and expand health services in North Philadelphia.

Parker visited St. Christopher's for a ceremonial signing of a bill to include children's hospitals and cancer hospitals in a program used to increase the amount of federal Medicaid money provided to city hospitals. She also signed a bill green lighting the construction of a new health center on the site of the former Friends Hospital.

"I see you and I appreciate you," Parker said, pointing to staff and patients who looked down from hospital floors into the atrium-style lobby.

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