Temple Health has been recognized as the Gift of Life Donor Program’s “Top-Performing Health System” in the 2024 Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) Donate Life Pennsylvania Hospital Challenge for the third year in a row. This friendly competition brings together regional organ donation organizations and their hospital partners to increase awareness of the need for organ, eye, and tissue donors, and to encourage new donor registrations. This year, 118 hospitals statewide participated in the challenge.
Temple University Hospital-Main Campus and TUH-Jeanes Campus each earned “Titanium” status—the top-level hospital designation in the region—for the third consecutive year. TUH-Main also achieved “Top-Performing Hospital” recognition, earning first place.
“Honors like these reinforce Temple Health’s reputation as a premier transplant center, with our skilled transplant teams performing hundreds of life-saving transplants each year – including kidney, liver, lung, heart, combined heart/lung, and pancreas – in addition to tissue transplants that have healed wounds, provided sight, and helped patients return to normal and active lives,” said Abhinav Rastogi, MBA, MIS, Executive Vice President of Temple University Health System and President & CEO of TUH. “These recognitions speak to Temple’s reputation as a place where patients and families receive great care, as well as a place of great caring, which our employees and staff demonstrate every day.”