Feb 23, 2021
Penn State Health employees are celebrating milestone work anniversaries between Feb.17 and Feb. 23
Feb 18, 2021
Read a roundup of announcements and short articles for the week of Feb.15.
Hershey Medical Center began testing all admitted patients for COVID-19 on February 17, using laboratory polymerase chain reaction testing and a three day point of care COVID-19 antigen testing pilot in the Adult Emergency Department.
Feb 17, 2021
Hershey Medical Center Shuttle Services is expanding its routes to better serve faculty and staff. All shuttle routes on the Hershey campus will include the Academic Support Building.
Feb 16, 2021
Penn State Health will open COVID-19 vaccinations to all in Phase 1A and prepares to launch dedicated vaccination sites throughout central Pennsylvania by the end of February.
Penn State Health employees are celebrating milestone work anniversaries between Feb. 10 and Feb. 16
Feb 12, 2021
Read a roundup of announcements and short articles for the week of Feb. 8.
Feb 11, 2021
Penn State Health has updated Tier 2 visitation guidelines to allow one support person for the adult Emergency Department and for the adult clinics. The system also clarified additional exceptions.
Limited Respiratory Viral Panel (RVP) testing is again available in the Hershey Virology Lab. The new estimated turnaround time is four hours with inpatient testing prioritized over outpatient testing.
Feb 9, 2021
Quarantined, asymptomatic staff who are critical to patient care operations may be able to return to work two days earlier.