Talk:List of the oldest hospitals in the United States

Oldest?
A reader wrote to Wikimedia observing a potential problem in three articles ticket:2018071610001155

If you look at Bellevue Hospital, you will see:

Bellevue Hospital, founded on March 31, 1736, is the oldest public hospital in the United States.

If you look at Pennsylvania Hospital, you will see:

Founded on May 11, 1751, by Benjamin Franklin and Dr. Thomas Bond, Pennsylvania Hospital is the earliest established public hospital in the United States.

If you look at List of the oldest hospitals in the United States, and glance down at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County you will see:

Nation's oldest public hospital 

The first and third seem to be identically worded. The second uses "earliest", rather than "oldest", but I have not grasped how that would make a difference. S Philbrick (Talk)  01:23, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
 * See comments at Talk:Bellevue Hospital to keep discussion in one place. That said, Bellevue has been public since the start almost 100 years before Cook County, so it's clear the source used in this article is in error. Removed the claim, and the erroneous ref. oknazevad (talk) 05:04, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Missing Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) was established in 1855, and is the nation's first children's hospital. This is not listed. 100.34.5.154 (talk) 01:03, 25 August 2023 (UTC)