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Penn State Health Children’s Week raises more than $100,000

Apr 15, 2024

Gifts to Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital totaled $100,170 during Penn State Health Children’s Week, a fundraising campaign held April 8-14, 2024.

Several people stand near a flagpole as a woman secures a Donate Life America flag to a rope prior to hoisting the flag into the air.

Flag-raising ceremonies honor lifesaving organ donation

Apr 10, 2024

Penn State Health honored organ donors and recipients and raised awareness for organ donation at an event on the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Holy Spirit Medical Center campuses.

Dr. Johnny Hong, wearing surgical scrubs, works with a piece of equipment in the foreground of an operating room. Other staff members are working in the background.

The Medical Minute: Six organ donation facts knock down six myths

Apr 10, 2024

More than 103,000 people in the U.S. are awaiting new organs. Many won’t live long enough to get them. The new chief of transplant at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center debunks the myths that get between donors and recipients.

In a bright hospital emergency room a female patient, wearing glasses and a blue shirt, is lying in a bed, covered by a white blanket. A smiling patient registration associate in a burgundy sweater stands at a mobile computer station to the right, amidst various medical devices.

Behind Every ER Visit: The Essential Role of Patient Registration Associates at Penn State Health

Apr 9, 2024

A trip to the emergency room is something no one wants to experience. People arrive by ambulance and by car, hurting and scared. Fast, quality care is essential—but so is […]

Dr. Kathryn Crowell crouches down as she puts a pinwheel in the ground in front of Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in 2023. A sign to her left says: “Each pinwheel in this garden represents one of the 579 children that have been helped through the Penn State Hershey Center for the Protection of Children during 2022.”

Preventing child abuse: How parents can keep their children safe

Apr 5, 2024

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. Get some tips on what you can do to keep your children safe.

A collage of photos features: Two women stand in front of a sign that reads, Congratulate Our DAISY Award. Honoree. The woman on the right holds a certificate. Group of male and female nurses and nurse leaders wearing scrubs, stand around a female nurse holding a certificate in a hospital hallway. The sign behind them reads, Congratulate Our DAISY Award Honoree. Group of female nurses and nurse leaders stand around a female nurse holding a certificate in a hospital hallway. The sign behind them reads, Congratulate Our DAISY Award Honoree.

Hershey Medical Center honors DAISY Award winners, Haas, Nye, Strine

Apr 4, 2024

Hershey Medical Center presented its quarterly DAISY (Diseases Attacking the Immune System) Award for Extraordinary Nurses to Jess Haas, Marissa Nye, and Theresa Strine.

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Penn State Health celebrates 40th anniversary milestone in heart transplant care

Apr 3, 2024

Milton S. Hershey Medical Center celebrated its 40th anniversary of providing heart transplants to patients in the region with a special event for its multidisciplinary heart transplant team on Feb. 22.

A flag marked with the words Honoring Organ, Eye and Tissue Donors is held in the center by Greg Allen, dressed in pants and a sweater. Along with his two brothers, who are not pictured, he received a heart transplant. To the right of him are Kellie Persofsky, who is wearing pants and a blazer, and her daughter, Sophia, dressed in jeans and a sweater. Mrs. Persofsky donated her kidney to her daughter. In the background are a number of other people who are taking part in the 2023 Donate Life flag-raising ceremony at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. The event honors organ donors and recipients.

Penn State Health celebrates Donate Life Month with flag-raising, Blue & Green Day

Apr 3, 2024

Penn State Health will honor organ donors and highlight the increasing need for organ donations with two events during National Donate Life Month in April.

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The Medical Minute: April fools vs. April facts

Apr 1, 2024

‘Tis the season of April trickery. Five Penn State health experts help you separate what’s real and what’s myth.

The moon covers the sun in a solar eclipse.

The Medical Minute: Help your children experience the solar eclipse while protecting their vision

Mar 27, 2024

It’s a celestial anomaly that happens only once in a blue moon. A Penn State Health expert talks about the safest ways for you to witness the solar eclipse on Monday, April 8.

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