Oct 25, 2007 8:49 am US/Eastern
Temple University To Lose Some Pediatric Services
PHILADELPHIA (AP) ―
Many pediatric services
provided at Temple University Children's
Medical
Center
will now be performed at another
children's hospital.
Under an agreement announced Wednesday, inpatient pediatric care and selected outpatient services now
provided at Temple will be done at St. Christopher's
Hospital for Children.
Officials will start making the
change immediately. It will mean the elimination of about 30 jobs, a
combination of doctors and staff.
Emergency pediatric care, neonatal
intensive care and outpatient or primary pediatric care will continue to be
provided at Temple.
The 25-year affiliation agreement
between Temple and St. Christopher's calls for pediatric physicians and
faculty from Temple's School of Medicine to practice and teach at St. Christopher's.
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