Category: Community

Three boxes of durable nitrile exam gloves sit on a table next to face masks. A photo on the boxes shows a person’s hands putting on a glove.

Penn State Health to close donation centers Friday after strong community response

May 21, 2020

Friday, May 22, will be the last day that Penn State Health will accept drop-off donations of key supplies from the community at large. The health system will close its donation centers in Hershey, Reading, Lancaster and State College.

A screen capture of the Heroes Look Like This website shows a grid of photos of Penn State College of Medicine medical and physician students smiling and waving. The text on the left side of the screen reads: From our frontlines to your front yards, our community is coming together, while staying apart, to achieve one common goal: To ensure the best health for everyone. During these challenging times we ask you to share your words of encouragement and well-wishes to any hero doing their part as we fight this pandemic. Best of all? You can do this while doing your own part in this battle by staying at home.

Heroes look like this … [insert name here]!

Apr 30, 2020

Need a morale boost? Our new Heroes Look Like This homepage is the place to submit shout-outs to your team or any staff member, health care provider or community partner – complete with photos, videos and notes.

Hershey Medical Center President Deborah Berini smiles. She has long hair, and her hands are folded in front of her. She is wearing a necklace and a blazer that is buttoned in the middle.

Berini: Thanks for ‘focus on patients and families’

Apr 27, 2020

Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center President Deborah Berini emailed Medical Center employees on Monday about Patient Experience Week.

Kevin Black wears a lab coat and leans against a tree with his arms crossed. Behind him is a statue of the Penn State Nittany lion.

Black: ‘We will work through all of this together’

Apr 27, 2020

Dr. Kevin Black, interim dean of Penn State College of Medicine, emailed faculty, staff and volunteers on Friday about the mounting financial impact of COVID-19.

Registered nurse Stephanie McGaw, who is wearing a sweatshirt, gloves and a mask, lifts a cardboard box of food into the trunk of a car. A tractor-trailer truck and traffic cones marking drive-through lanes are in the parking lot behind her.

Boxing up support: Penn State Health, community partners offer food to patients in need

Apr 23, 2020

Penn State Health, Central Pennsylvania Food Bank and the Caring Cupboard food pantry of Palmyra are teaming up to provide food boxes at Hershey Medical Center’s drive-through COVID-19 testing site and to people at home in isolation.

Seven members of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit are holding bags of coffee. They are all wearing scrubs and masks and standing in the hallway of their unit.

Brewing gratitude, one bag at a time

Apr 14, 2020

From our front lines to theirs, members of the Respiratory Care Department got together to fund a $500 shipment of specialty coffee to a former colleague and her co-workers at a hospital in the heart of New York City.

Jill Rebuck laughs at a smiling woman in scrubs holding a stack of Girl Scout cookie boxes. Other women in scrubs look on.

Girl Scout cookies delivered to front line

Mar 31, 2020

Jill Rebuck, director of clinical pharmacy services at Hershey Medical Center, collected $1,020 in donations in just over 24 hours and delivered more than 250 boxes of Girl Scout cookies to employees at Penn State Health.

The Penn State Health front porch is a wooden stage with a porch with shingles rising behind it, lined by a railing.

Beefing up Penn State Health at Farm Show

Jan 3, 2020

Penn State Health will have a bigger presence than in previous years at the 2020 Pennsylvania Farm Show Jan. 4 to 11. Included with the annual flu shots is information from providers and more.

A man stands behind a table talking with three children who are standing on the other side of it. Various cups and beakers are part of a display on the table. Other people and tables are in the background.

Penn State PRO Wellness goes Full STEM Ahead with vaccine study in Lancaster School District

Dec 18, 2019

Penn State PRO Wellness welcomed nearly 100 people to the Full STEM Ahead event for families of middle school students in the School District of Lancaster.

A man holds a piece of vision screening equipment, pointing to it, as a young girl looks on. A woman stands on the other side of the girl, holding and looking at a clipboard.

Hershey Medical Center personnel provide free health screenings for Lebanon students

Oct 7, 2019

Nurses, physicians and medical students from Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center visited Northwest Elementary School in Lebanon to provide health screenings for students.

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