Category: Community

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Be an ally: Business, employee resource groups invite employees to help build inclusive workplace

Dec 15, 2021

Business and Employee Resource Groups are helping Penn State Health become more diverse and inclusive. They are looking for additional members to join candid discussions on creating a better workplace and patient care environment.

Dr. Jennifer Kraschnewski delivers a speech while standing at a podium at the groundbreaking ceremony for the first home being built as part of the Got Your 6 at Home initiative.

College of Medicine partners with Charter Homes and Neighborhoods to support veterans’ mental health

Oct 12, 2021

Penn State College of Medicine, Penn State Health and Charter Homes and Neighborhoods have launched an initiative to better support veterans’ mental health and employment challenges in central Pennsylvania.

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Honey, sweet honey: Penn State Health beekeepers’ annual harvest is in full swing

Oct 6, 2021

It’s a sweet time of year for Dr. Andrew Freiberg and Scott Stanley as they extract honey from Penn State Health hives and donate proceeds from honey sales to the Hershey Community Garden at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.

Close-up of pair of rainbow-colored socks hanging from clothesline.

Show support of LGBTQ employees and patients on National Coming Out Day, Oct. 11

Oct 4, 2021

The Penn State Health Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion encourages employees to show support for sexual and gender minority patients and colleagues by wearing rainbow socks for National Coming Out Day on Monday, Oct. 11.

A man kneels close to a rough patch of ground. Behind him, rows of saplings reach toward the crest of a hill where two others can been seen crouching and walking. The man wears a baseball cap, jacket, jeans, boots and gloves. He’s also wearing a surgical mask.

Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center named one of 24 Tree Campus Healthcare facilities nationwide

Sep 27, 2021

For the second straight year, the Arbor Day Foundation has recognized Hershey Medical Center as a Tree Campus Healthcare Institution.

A group of 14 women stand in front of a school bus holding “Stuff the Bus” signs, pom-poms and foam fingers. Ten of them are wearing United Way T-shirts. Behind them is a Penn State Health pop-up tent.

United Way Stuff the Bus campaign yields record results

Sep 20, 2021

Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine employees stuffed not one, but two buses with school and health supplies, and St. Joseph Medical Center employees stuffed 51 backpacks.

Four men and one woman stand in a courtyard and smile at the camera. From left are Steve Massini, Penn State Health CEO; Jim George, Penn State Health director of community relations; Michelle Phillips, United Way of the Capital Region (UWCR) campaign manager; Anthony Worrall, Reynolds Restoration Services president and UWCR campaign vice chair; and Tim Fatzinger, UWCR president and CEO, celebrate the Outstanding Campaign Team Award. Jim George and Michelle Phillips are holding a Plexiglas trophy engraved with a United Way award won by Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine.

United Way of Capital Region honors Penn State Health, College of Medicine with Outstanding Campaign Team Award

Jul 6, 2021

United Way of the Capital Region presented Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine with the Outstanding Campaign Team Award in the large company category.

Man wearing a grey hoodie, black pants, face mask and gloves uses a shovel to dig a hole for a tree while another man, wearing a flannel shirt, jeans and a face mask, looks on.

Volunteers plant 100 new trees on Hershey campus during Earth Day ceremony

Apr 27, 2021

Nine Penn State College of Medicine volunteers celebrated Earth Day on Thursday, April 22 by planting 100 native seedlings on the west side of the Hershey Medical Center campus.

Rachel Frometa, who is seated and wears a mask and sunglasses on the top of her head, holds the hand of her mother, Betty Frometa, who stands beside her, as a vaccine is pressed into her arm by the hands of a health care worker.

Feeling relieved: Pop-up vaccination clinics reach underserved populations

Mar 30, 2021

Penn State Health is partnering with community organizations and local governments to help Phase 1A-eligible individuals in underserved communities have access to COVID-19 vaccinations.

A woman in a mask stands in a clinic hallway with stained-wood floors holding a basket of feminine hygiene products.

‘Go with the flo’: Nurse spearheads project to combat period poverty

Mar 8, 2021

Megan Swope, a perianesthesia nurse at Hershey Medical Center, created The Period Project Harrisburg to address the need for hygiene packs for low-income and homeless individuals who menstruate.

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