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Emergency and Transfer Services

One Call. Immediate Access.

One call to Temple Transport Team (T3) at 866-4T3-TEAM (866-483-8326) will begin the expedited process of transferring your patients and accessing a specialty team focused on maintaining critical care during transport.

The strength of T3 lies in its people: critical care nurses, paramedics, mission support coordinators and medical direction. This team constantly strives to refine and expand the practice of interfacility transport medicine.

Members of the team have completed comprehensive training, enabling them to address the complex medical needs of your patients.

They also possess various specialty certifications in all disciplines of medicine. It all starts with your call being answered by a highly trained mission support coordinator who will facilitate your patient’s transfer to the advanced specialty care that Temple Health offers.

Advantages of the Temple Transport Team

  • 24/7 access to professional nurses and paramedics experienced in the transport environment

  • Access for patients to the most advanced specialty care available

  • Transport arrangements by Temple so your team can focus on patient care

  • Fast, efficient and professional air* or ground** critical care on the way within minutes of your call

  • Access to a 24/7 Comprehensive Communications Center to manage the transfer of patients from the originating facility to the destination facility

During transfers from emergency departments, operating rooms or intensive care units, T3 stands ready to manage your patients with:

  • Specialty modes of ventilation

  • CPAP and BiPAP non-invasive ventilation

  • Ongoing thrombolysis

  • Intra-aortic balloon pumps

  • Ventricular assist devices

  • Open complex surgical wounds

  • ECMO

  • Neurosurgical monitoring devices

  • Advanced airway management, including RSI and surgical airways

  • Complex thermal and chemical burns

Urgent Transfer Assistance

For urgent transfer assistance, call the Temple Transfer Center at 215-707-TRAN (8726) 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

* Aviation services provided by Air Methods Corporation.