Expanding Your Possibilities

Temple Health is a national training site for the treatment and management of COPD. Temple physicians continue to advance the standard of care for those living with COPD, helping patients find more options to breathe better.

Temple Health is dedicated to reversing the trend of poor maternal and women’s health outcomes in the region and across the country. Our Women & Families Hospital will be the Philadelphia area’s only hospital exclusively dedicated to women’s and families’ health. This means developing an equitable model for ensuring healthy parents, babies, and pregnancy outcomes.

Knowing that stable housing is one of the most impactful social determinants of health, Steven Carson, MHA, BSN, RN, began an initiative to address homelessness within the Temple community—and the impact is astounding.

Dissatisfied with current treatments for DVT and PE, Dr. Riyaz Bashir designed a new solution that uses a specialized catheter and the body’s own blood to dissolve clots much more quickly and with less medication than current methods.

The Temple MDA/ALS Center of Hope is a national leader in helping people with ALS and other neuromuscular diseases manage their condition, offering specialized care and clinical trials not found at most hospitals.

While managing some of the highest COVID-19 volumes in Philadelphia, Temple’s medical team has simultaneously achieved survival rates far better than the national and regional averages.

Through extensive collaboration with research colleagues throughout the country, Temple is a national leader in helping patients with lung disease live their healthiest lives.

Adult patients who are suffering from tracheobronchomalacia (TBM) — a collapse of the windpipe and bronchial tubes — can find expertise at Temple, a destination center for this rare condition.

Over 200 hospitals throughout the region depend on Temple to care for their most critically injured and sick patients.

Physician-researchers at Temple Health and the Lewis Katz School of Medicine are working to enhance public understanding of firearm violence to promote lifesaving policies and programming across the region.