History & local legend
Jeanes Hospital, now Temple University Hospital's Jeanes Campus in Philadelphia's Fox Chase neighborhood, began with a bequest from Quaker philanthropist Anna Thomas Jeanes. She left funds for a hospital serving people with cancer and other disabling illnesses on her family's fifty-four-acre farm. Jeanes died in 1907; the hospital received its first patients in 1928.
A later ghost story says that, when staff heard rumors of a buyout, Jeanes began appearing to them. People telling the story interpreted her return as opposition to the proposed sale.
