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Temple Health also known as Temple University Health System is a non-profit academic healthcare network based in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The healthcare network serves Pennsylvania and its flagship hospital is Temple University Hospital , a safety net hospital , located in Philadelphia.
In 2015, Temple University Hospital had more than 84,000 emergency department [3] and 200,000 outpatient visits. In August 2011, Becker's Hospital Review listed Temple University Hospital as number 10 on the 100 Top Grossing Hospitals in America with $5.9 billion in gross revenue. [4]
As of July 2018, there were 249 state licensed hospitals and VA hospital facilities in Pennsylvania. 148 of these facilities were non-profit, 86 were for-profit or "investor-owned", and 15 were public hospitals owned by the Federal government, state government, or in one case, the city of Philadelphia. [1]
On December 15, 2011, Fox Chase Cancer Center and Temple University Health system signed an affiliation agreement. [4] Under the agreement, Fox Chase has connected and extended its current operations into the adjoining 176-bed and 33-acre Jeanes Hospital, which is already a part of the Temple University Health System.
First university-owned teaching hospital in the United States [9] Pennsylvania Hospital: Center City, Philadelphia: Teaching: 1751 [9] 1993 First hospital of the United States [9] Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: University City, Philadelphia: Teaching: 1871 1995
In March 2006, the union organized a small unit of 40 registered nurses and technicians at Wills Eye Surgical Center in Philadelphia. [9] The union quickly expanded its organizing program. In May 2007, 275 registered nurses at Jeanes Hospital (a member of the Temple University Health System) voted to join PASNAP.
[1] [2] As of 2015, Temple University's Fox Chase Cancer Center is ranked the ninth-best hospital for adult cancer by U.S. News & World Report. [3] In 2024, LKSOM received 12,939 applications for a class of 221 students, ranking eighth in number of applicants among the 158 MD schools in the United States. [4]
The hospital acquired Quakertown Community Hospital and Allentown Osteopathic Medical Center in the 1990s and was reorganized as a hospital network in 1998. In 2006, a clinical campus of Temple University School of Medicine was opened at the St. Luke's Bethlehem campus, and in 2009, a four-year School of Medicine was established in Bethlehem ...