Tower Health Program

Program Identity & Fit

Tower Health's Anesthesiology Residency is a newer, small program (six residents per class) based at Reading Hospital, the flagship of a regional community health system in West Reading, PA, offering a high-volume clinical experience (13,000+ anesthetics, 3,000+ deliveries annually) that includes cardiac, neurological, trauma, pediatric, obstetric, and pain management rotations. The program emphasizes close faculty-resident relationships given its small class size, with an explicit focus on mentorship, board certification, and developing clinicians who are patient-centered and collaboration-oriented within multidisciplinary surgical and nursing teams. Academic partnerships with St. Christopher's Hospital for Children and Jefferson Torresdale Hospital extend subspecialty pediatric and additional clinical exposure. The program's stated mission centers on community-oriented, cost-effective care and participation in "appropriate" clinical research, positioning it as clinically dense but not research-driven, with career preparation oriented toward competent generalist anesthesiology practice rather than a defined academic or fellowship pipeline.