“We are committed to ensuring that the physician voice is well-represented in all aspects of our operations.”

Exciting Developments for Clinical Faculty

The Lewis Katz School of Medicine and Temple Faculty Physicians Town Hall, led by Claire Raab, MD, CEO of Temple Faculty Physicians and Amy J. Goldberg, MD, FACS, The Marjorie Joy Katz Dean of the Lewis Katz School of Medicine, serves as a pivotal forum to address key developments and initiatives within our institution.

The leadership team is dedicated to fostering an environment of transparency, collaboration, and continuous improvement, ensuring that everyone is well-informed and engaged in our collective mission.

TFP STRATEGIC GOALS FY25

• Rapid Provider Growth: TFP has grown from 450 providers in FY21 to about 700 in FY25, with year-over-year growth in office staffing. TFP is experiencing a sustained annual visit volume increase of 5%, with provider growth projected to rise 10% this year—driven by improved retention and strategic hiring of Advanced Practice Providers.

• Expand Ambulatory Footprint: High ED use demands that we expand access to preventative and ambulatory care. New locations and expanded spaces include sub-leasing space in a former Rite Aid for a multi-disciplinary clinic with 15-20 rooms; moving our Family/Community Medicine department to the ground floor of the Zion Baptist Church; expanding space at Jeanes in the POB; leasing space on Chestnut Hill Avenue for 15-20 multidisciplinary rooms; utilizing clinic space at Temple Women & Families; and constructing a new Medical Office Building.

• Build Ambulatory Quality & Safety Infrastructure: TFP CMO Dr. Esme Singer will meet with departments to help identify meaningful outpatient metrics. We also will work together to define and identify ambulatory events reportable in Midas to ensure complete safety reporting and appropriate benchmarking.

• Improve Faculty & Staff Experience: As TFP grows, we want to make sure that faculty and staff concerns are fully heard and that the reasons for changes are fairly and clearly considered. Concerns identified in the Faculty Engagement Survey include ability to disengage from work, leadership and communication, clinic operations, safety and quality. We are partnering with Katz and our hospitals as we work hard to address these concerns collaboratively. Improvements this year include increased staffing, use of Ambient AI to assist with notes in Epic, and increased transparency and responsiveness to provide needed information timely.

KATZ UPDATE

LCME Accreditation: Document was submitted in December, site visit took place April 6-9 (we did really well), and the final report is expected this Fall.

Strategic Plan: Inspiring Excellence, our school’s strategic plan was developed to align with and complement the strategic plans of other Temple entities, ensuring cohesion and shared priorities across our academic medical center and university. The strategic plan is available on our website. Seven active work groups are developing strategic initiatives and tactics.

Leadership appointments:

• Gretchen Diemer, MD: Senior Associate Dean of Education
• Dan Edmundowicz, MD: Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs
• Andrew Sanderson, MD: Associate Dean, Office of Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Match Day 2025:

• 98.5% of our students matched; 27 states represented
• 74 students matched in PA
• 24 students matched at Temple Health hospitals
• Top 3 specialties: internal medicine, general surgery, family medicine

 

Faculty Mentor Scholarly Experience 2025: This is the first year that every student was expected to have some scholarly experience with a faculty mentor. Inaugural capstone symposium was held on 4/4; projects ranged from case reports to basic research to community engagement and clinical research.

 

Staying Informed and Engaged: We are communicating daily with the University and Health System about how the threatened federal research funding cuts could affect our Temple family and communities. TU President John Fry has been very communicative, and we will continue pass that info along and engage with the broader academic medical community. President Fry said: “One thing that will remain the same is Temple’s mission of access, opportunity, engagement, and discovery.”

 

TUH INC. UPDATE

 

Guest presenter

Abhinav Rastogi, MBA, MIS

Executive Vice President, Temple University Health System

President and Chief Executive Officer, Temple University Hospital, Inc.

New Expanded Services: We are investing in our hospitals. We’ve made over $150 million in capital improvements across the Health System in the last 3 years, including:

• TUH-Episcopal Campus: Emergency Department and Crisis Response Center expansion, Retail Pharmacy

• TUH-Jeanes Campus: Emergency Department expansion, Cardiac Cath Lab, Observation unit, Pulmonary Function Lab
• Temple Health-Chestnut Hill Hospital: Infusion Center, new service lines: ophthalmology, thoracic, vascular, neurology, FCCC surgical oncology, FCCC breast
• Women & Families Campus: New home for Labor and Delivery opening summer 2025, Operating rooms opening 5/12. To be invited to Executive Steering Committee meetings, please email Christina.Stoner@tuhs.temple.edu. Please visit the Resource page on the Hub for the latest information.

Temple University Hospital, Inc. Quality Achievements:

• Main Campus earned its 9th Safety Grade ‘A’ from Leapfrog since 2020
• Jeanes has earned its 4th Safety Grade ‘A’ from Leapfrog since 2020
• Named to Healthgrades 2025 America’s Best Hospitals list
• Recognized by Healthgrades as a 2024 Patient Safety Excellence Award™ recipient
• You’re the reason we’ve earned these national recognitions

 

Watch a recording of the Town Hall Session here.

 

Original Post Date: May 6, 2025