DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICIAN/FACULTY RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION

Organization

That legacy persists and enhances the School to this very day with a palpable sense of mission to improve the human condition by educating superior physicians, advancing knowledge through research, and providing health care to the impoverished.

Rev. Conwell founded Good Samaritan Hospital (now Temple University Hospital) in 1892 to provide healthcare for the melting pot neighborhoods encircling his Baptist Temple. In 1901, he opened the doors of Temple University School of Medicine (TUSM) to working-class citizens who sought to improve their lives—and the lives of others—through medical education.

Today, Temple University Hospital is a 746-bed teaching hospital located on Temple University's Health Sciences Center campus at Broad and Ontario Streets in Philadelphia.  The hospital provides patients with ready access to an exceptional group of physicians in every specialty and primary care field.  These doctors include the nationally recognized faculty of Temple University School of Medicine, who are supported by the advanced resources of its major teaching hospital.

• Typical patient unit:  34 beds
• Operating rooms: 17
• Cardiac catheterization labs:  4
• Critical care unit beds: 173
• Level 1 Trauma Center
• Outpatient visits from 7/1/06 to 6/30/07: 104,958
• Emergency Department visits from 7/1/06 to 6/30/07: 64,481
• Births from 7/1/06 to 7/30/07:  2,872
• 20 residency programs