By HFT Editorial Staff

Temple University Health System recently announced that the new campus acquired in June by Temple University Hospital (TUH) in Philadelphia will become a hospital for women’s health, pending Pennsylvania Department of Health review and approval. The announcement comes after a group of key Temple Health stakeholders carefully considered what mix of healthcare specialties at this new campus would best serve Temple’s patients and its community.

The campus will offer myriad services focused on women’s health needs. Key among those is maternity care. TUH delivered more than 2,200 babies last year. Its maternal care services offer a comprehensive and coordinated approach to pre- and post-natal care and education, and with no obstetrical mortality in five-plus years despite the high acuity of its patients.

TUH’s newest campus allows Temple to expand and improve these services: with private rooms for mothers and babies, clinical space for 12 labor and delivery/high-risk antepartum beds, 32 post-partum beds, eight ICU beds, triage and stabilization area, an expanded neonatal unit, and more than 75 exam rooms, as well as radiology, mammography, MRI, and CT.

The new campus also will offer specialty care for women to be finalized over the next several months, including general surgery, breast surgery, vascular surgery, urology, internal medicine, cardiology, endocrinology, and behavioral health.