Can you still deliver to the Taylor Hospital address on East Chester Pike?
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No, because nobody is there to sign for it. The campus half a mile from Ridleypark Florist stopped admitting patients in 2025, and careful addressing does not change that. It comes up more than you would expect: a relative out of state remembers the hospital the family always used, orders to it, and the order has to be stopped and re-asked. Get the current building first. If nobody can say with confidence where the patient is, send to the house in the borough and let the family carry it in — it is still waiting when they get back from visiting.
Can you deliver to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia?
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Yes, and the run is short — Uofprose's Florist at 36th and Chestnut is blocks from Civic Center Boulevard. The constraint is the unit, not the driving. Pediatric oncology, bone-marrow transplant, cardiac intensive care and the newborn units restrict or refuse flowers and plants, and latex is declined hospital-wide on allergy grounds. Send the child's full name as admitting recorded it plus the unit, since pediatric floors route nothing by a first name. For a family sitting beside a NICU cot, the gift that lands is one sent to the parent lounge, or to the house in Ridley Township where the other children are.
My neighbor is on an oncology or transplant floor at Penn. What changes?
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Treat it as the most restricted adult case in range. On the transplant floors at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and among infusion patients at the Abramson Cancer Center, the potted plant is refused first: damp soil is a living culture carrying fungal spores an immunocompromised patient should not be near. Lilies are out as well, along with anything heavily scented, because the smell travels past the door and nausea is being actively managed behind it. The safe inpatient order is a compact lily-free hand-tie in a sealed unbreakable container. Keep the pothos or the dracaena for the homecoming, when it outlasts the treatment.
What do you need on the order besides the hospital name?
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The patient's full name as the admitting desk wrote it, the unit, and the room. A facility will not search its census off a first name, and anyone who opted out of the directory is not confirmed as being on the premises, so a delivery carrying only a building name waits at a lobby desk until someone claims it. With a name and a unit but no room, a cell number for whoever is visiting is the better second piece. Unsure whether the floor accepts flowers at all? Name the unit in the notes and the shop telephones before it starts cutting rather than after.
Is it better to send to the hospital or to the house in Ridley Park?
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Often the house, for a reason specific to this borough now. Stays at Riddle and Mercy Fitzgerald run a few nights, and since the hospital is no longer down the street, discharge means a seven-to-twelve-mile drive with a walker in the back and prescriptions on a lap — anything handed over that morning becomes cargo. Sent to the house the next day it can be larger, scented if they like scent, in a vessel they keep, and it arrives once the visitors thin out. Porch routes run through the borough and out across Woodlyn, Folsom, Holmes, Crum Lynne and Prospect Park; leave a number so the driver knocks.
Can you deliver to Fair Acres, Riddle Village or a rehab floor in the county?
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Yes, and these are the easiest deliveries on this page — a rehabilitation or personal-care room is somebody's home for weeks, so flowers are welcome in a way an acute ward cannot manage. Fair Acres in Lima, Riddle Village in Media, and the personal-care and memory-care homes through Ridley Township, Springfield, Aston and Broomall all receive at a reception desk that routes by room, so the room number belongs on the order. Late morning beats late afternoon, ahead of the shift change. Memory-care wings often want a low container and no glass; name the wing and the vessel is swapped, not the design.