The Medical Minute: Cramps in the legs could indicate peripheral artery disease
Peripheral artery disease develops silently, narrowing blood vessels for decades until the supply of nutrients and oxygen falls low enough to cause cramps and leg pain. Initially, the body may form...
View ArticleWeekly Quick Hits — Friday, Nov. 22, 2019
Weekly Quick Hits recaps announcements and events from The Daily Brief email. Check your email inbox for more. Have an item to be featured in Quick Hits? Email news@pennstatehealth.psu.edu...
View ArticleHershey Medical Center to serve free Thanksgiving meal Wednesday and Thursday
Hershey Medical Center’s Rotunda Café will serve a free Thanksgiving meal to on-duty faculty, staff and patients and their families late Wednesday night and Thursday afternoon. Senior leadership and...
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LeSean McCoy visits Children’s Hospital, manages to find a Chiefs fan
When LeSean McCoy visited Penn State Children’s Hospital, it was hard to tell who enjoyed the visit more – the patients and families or McCoy himself. The NFL running back seemed to relish every moment...
View ArticleMassini: Goal to improve employee engagement
Penn State Health CEO Steve Massini sent the following email to Penn State Health employees on Thursday: Dear Colleagues, My inbox is overflowing with responses to last week’s email about our...
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We are… doing our part to fight hunger
Students from the Physician Assistant (PA) Program at Penn State College of Medicine packaged more than 14,000 meals to be distributed to people in need throughout the world Nov. 15 at the University...
View ArticlePenn State Health St. Joseph – Muhlenberg relocating to better serve patient...
Penn State Health St. Joseph – Muhlenberg is changing to better meet the needs of the Muhlenberg and Temple communities. The practice is moving to a new facility that will continue to offer urgent care...
View ArticleCancer linked with a more than doubled risk of dying from stroke
People living with or beyond cancer are more likely to die from stroke than the general public, according to new Penn State research, and certain types of cancer may boost the risk even more....
View ArticleHighmark Foundation-supported nutrition box program to launch in December
The Highmark Foundation awarded a $15,000 grant to Penn State Health in August 2019 for its Health Share Nutrition Box Program for Food Pantry Clients initiative. The Community Health team will use the...
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‘Anyone would do it,’ says Hershey Medical Center ER nurse who adopted abused...
By Carolyn Kimmel April Doster is a firm believer that everything happens for a reason. It’s no accident, the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center emergency department nurse says, that...
View ArticleRare disease research benefits from institute support
Research on the Ehlers-Danlos syndromes, a group of rare heritable disorders of connective tissue, is supported through Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute. The institute funded two...
View ArticlePenn State PRO Wellness partners with Kohl’s on behavioral health school program
Kohl’s has awarded $100,000 to Penn State PRO Wellness to help fund a program that works with schools to create measurable improvements around the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child model, with...
View ArticleEarle named senior vice president and chief information officer
Cletis Earle, formerly senior vice president and chief information officer of Kaleida Health/Great Lake’s Health of Western New York, has been named senior vice president and chief information officer...
View ArticleWeekly Quick Hits — Friday, Nov. 29, 2019
Weekly Quick Hits recaps announcements and events from The Daily Brief email. Check your email inbox for more. Have an item to be featured in Quick Hits? Email news@pennstatehealth.psu.edu...
View ArticleRegistration open for December SMaRT Connects session on library resources
SMaRT Connects, a resource of the Staffing, Mentorship and Research Training (SMaRT) Program at Penn State College of Medicine, will be held from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Dec. 19 in Lecture Room A, on the...
View ArticleRegistration open for ‘Research Databases and Clinical Applications’ research...
Paula Valencia-Moulton and Aimee Merchlinski will present “Research Databases and Clinical Applications” at the next Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design (BERD) Research Methods Seminar....
View ArticleGME Best Practices: Personalized recruitment documents and cost comparative...
Many residency and fellowship programs report struggling with how to connect individual candidates to central Pennsylvania. The Internal Medicine Residency at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey...
View ArticleGME Best Practices: Planning formal remediation
Over the last several years, the Office of Graduate Medical Education at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center has worked with several programs when the need for formal remediation plans...
View ArticleGME Best Practices: Pediatric resident/nurse shadowing program
At Penn State Children’s Hospital, pediatric inpatient providers and nurses work together every day to provide safe, high-quality care to the most acutely ill and injured children in central...
View ArticleGME Best Practices: Surgery resident/RN orientation
In order to improve collaborative care, during the Surgery Residency orientation boot camp, the program dedicates a whole afternoon to nurse/physician collaboration. This begins with a RN/MD lunch,...
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