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TOP-FLIGHT TRAUMA & CRITICAL CARE
Temple serves as a clinical hub for the NIH’s national Emergency Medicine Clinical Trials Network, aimed at improving outcomes for patients with neurologic, cardiac, respiratory, hematologic, and trauma emergencies. Five Temple intensive care units (SICU, MRICU, IICN, Neuro ICUs, and CICU) hold Beacon Awards for Excellence. And Temple MedFlight provides 24/7 critical care transport, inter-hospital transfers, and organ retrievals in the Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, New York, and Maryland regions.
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INCLUSIVITY CITY
We Speak Your Language: In 2019, Temple’s 373 language-proficient staff conducted 77,000 interpretations for patients who don’t speak English. All in for Patients: Temple is an open enrollment site for the NIH “All of Us” research program, redressing underrepresentation of minority populations in genomic-based research. All in for Students: Our medical school’s Office of Health Equity, Diversity & Inclusion promotes health equity through culturally responsive modes of education, care delivery, workforce development, and research.
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Healthgrades, one of the nation’s leading hospital quality assessors, named Temple University Hospital and its Jeanes Hospital Campus two of America’s 250 Best Hospitals, 2019. And Temple University Hospital holds Healthgrades’ Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence, a distinction achieved by just five percent of America’s hospitals.
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A TOP SCIENCE STORY
Discover magazine named Temple’s HIV-1 research collaboration with the University of Nebraska Medical Center one of the Top Science Stories of 2019. The team eliminated, for the first time, replication-competent HIV-1 DNA from the genomes of living animals, a critical step toward a possible cure for human HIV infection.
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TOP ORGAN DONATION HONORS
Temple University Hospital earned Top Performer Status in the 2019 Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania Donate Life Pennsylvania Hospital Challenge.
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CHAMPION OF EQUALITY
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the nation’s most powerful LGBTQ civil rights advocacy group, named Temple University Hospital a “Leader in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality” in 2018 and 2019. 18
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REGIONAL LEADER IN BURN CARE
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WE TAKE THE TOUGHEST CASES
Temple is Philadelphia’s leading regional burn care center, a Level 1 trauma center that’s certified by the American Burn Association and the American College of Surgeons — and holder of the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Beacon Award for Excellence.
Every day, hospitals throughout the region transfer their most acutely ill, medically complex patients to Temple — counting on our trauma care teams and specialized ICUs. Temple’s Case Mix Index, a measure of acuity, is in the top quartile among America’s academic medical centers.
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STELLAR STROKE CARE
Temple holds Joint Commission Comprehensive Stroke Center Certification — and is recognized year after year by the American Heart Association/ American Stroke Association for our strict adherence to nationally recognized, research-based stroke care guidelines, which improves patient outcomes.