Hershey Medical Center, College of Medicine designate safe break space
Leadership at Hershey Medical Center and the College of Medicine are working to provide employees with safe spaces to take breaks and minimize the spread of COVID-19. Employees using theses rooms...
View ArticleNickell named chief financial officer for Hershey Medical Center, Academic...
Julie Nickell will join Penn State Health as vice president and chief financial officer for Hershey Medical Center and Penn State Health Medical Group, Academic Practice Division, on Monday, March 29....
View ArticleFrank named interim regional president at Lancaster Medical Center
Joe Frank, who has served as interim president of St. Joseph Medical Center since March 2020, has been appointed to the additional responsibility of regional president for Lancaster Medical Center on...
View ArticleCollege of Medicine Pandemic Response Friday Round-Up – Week of Feb. 22-26
New check-in process starts March 1 Due to the great work everyone has been doing to maintain a safe environment, in-person temperature and COVID symptom screenings will be discontinued, effective...
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Sidelined by cancer during COVID, Holy Spirit medical assistant gets back to...
By Bill Landauer Welcome to your life after COVID-19. Meet your guide, Renee Still. “Hi there!” she says with a voice that simultaneously hits 10s on gauges for volume and warmth. You meet her when you...
View ArticlePhysician’s abstract art featured at Cocoa Beanery exhibit
Dr. Noel H. Ballentine, MD, a general internist and geriatrician at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, spends his free time creating pen and ink art. Examples of his work will be on...
View ArticleHarkins leaving Penn State Health Women’s Health. MIGS team assures...
Dr. Gerald Harkins, division chief of Minimally Invasive Gynecology Surgery (MIGS), a division he established within the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2010, is leaving Penn State Health...
View ArticleEmployees honored for work milestones
Congratulations to the following Penn State Health employees who are celebrating a milestone work anniversary between Feb. 24 and March 2. They put our values into action every day. Employees are...
View ArticleTalent needed: Join the Ethics Consultation Service
The Department of Humanities is looking for talented people with advanced training in medical ethics to join the Ethics Consultation Service for Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center....
View ArticleMusic to their ears: Relaxation videos bring therapy home
By Carolyn Kimmel For Levi Thomson, the road to relaxation is just a link away – on the Penn State Health YouTube channel. There, the 20-year-old Penn State Children’s Hospital patient selects a music...
View ArticleFarzin named senior vice president for Penn State Health Medical Group,...
Dr. Safa Farzin, who joined Penn State Health in 2019 and currently serves as vice president for medical affairs and staff development at Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center, has been promoted to...
View ArticleThe Medical Minute: Colonoscopy comes calling earlier under new screening...
Unpopular among patients for its night-before bowel prep and fasting, the colonoscopy is one more reason people lament turning 50. But evolving evidence shows the screening test should actually start...
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Behind the Scenes on the Front Lines: Employee Health Services
In “normal” times, they take care of the people who take care of the patients. Employee Health Services staff members at Penn State Health provide information on required tests to new hires, offer...
View ArticleMarch is National Nutrition Month: Here’s how you can reach your nutrition goals
Note: This post is written by the team of The ONE Group (Oncology – Nutrition – Exercise) at Penn State College of Medicine as part of a first-person blog about their work. Learn more about the group...
View ArticlePreventing injuries and improving recovery with micro-Doppler radars
Micro-Doppler radars could soon be used in clinical settings to predict injury risk and track recovery progress, according to Penn State researchers. Being able to view subtle differences in human...
View ArticleWeekly Updates: Week of March 1
COVID news Staff invited to sign up to help at Penn State Health’s newly launched, dedicated vaccination sites Penn State Health is asking employees to help staff its four dedicated vaccination sites...
View ArticleFischer recognized for Exceptional Moments in Teaching
Dr. Michelle Fischer, an emergency medicine physician in Hershey Medical Center’s Department of Emergency Medicine, is featured for March in the “Exceptional Moments in Teaching” program. “Flex days...
View ArticleFive questions with team science researcher Susan Mohammed
Researchers like Susan Mohammed study the formation and functioning of teams, a field called team science. Team science is essential because understanding team dynamics strengthens team member unity....
View Article‘Go with the flo’: Nurse spearheads project to combat period poverty
By Carolyn Kimmel For many low-income and homeless people, “that time of the month” can pose sanitary challenges and a barrier to work – a hardship that Megan Swope says most people don’t realize. “I...
View ArticleEmployees honored for work milestones
Congratulations to the following Penn State Health employees who are celebrating a milestone work anniversary between March 3 and March 9. They put our values into action every day. Employees are...
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