May 7, 2018
By Carolyn Kimmel and Jenn Knepper In nursing school, Chelsea Stoner learned all the necessary skills—patient assessment, medication calculations, charting—to train her for a career in health care, but nothing […]
May 2, 2018
By Carolyn Kimmel Millie Taylor is stir-frying healthier dinners and not spending a fortune on them, thanks to information she learned from Penn State College of Medicine students at monthly […]
Apr 25, 2018
By Diego Sandino When Dr. Lidys Rivera Galvis arrived in the United States, one of her main goals was to take her licensing exam and then apply for residency to […]
Apr 17, 2018
By Michael Modes Music is a universal language. It can inspire, nurture and calm the soul beyond words. And at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, music is […]
Apr 10, 2018
By Lisa Maresca In October 1982, Epcot opened at Disney World, the USSR performed an underground nuclear test and Sue Espenshade started her career with Penn State Health Milton S. […]
Apr 3, 2018
By Katherine Brind’Amour When you go shopping for testing equipment responsible for churning out 5,000 or more specimens per day—some of which have life-changing or therapy-altering implications—you have to make […]
Mar 27, 2018
By Gwen Newman Sometimes you make history quite unexpectedly. Such was the case for Dr. Hyma Polimera, an internist at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center – and […]
Mar 20, 2018
By Marianne Clay Four-year-old “Jake” wails as he crumples into a corner. Ten feet away looms a large, box-like machine, a CT scanner. For the last half hour, Jake’s parents, […]
Mar 13, 2018
More than 50,000 cardiac arrests occur outside of the hospital each year, according to the American Heart Association. CPR, especially if administered immediately, can double or triple a person’s chance […]
By Carolyn Kimmel When Penn State Health Children’s Hospital pediatrics nurse Marty Woodfin changed her walking routine from her neighborhood to the medical campus last July, she had no idea […]