Category: Meet Our Team

[2:12 PM] McVitty, Vanessa stephens-1200x800.png Caption: Heather Stephens, a neonatal clinical nurse specialist at Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Alt Text: Portrait of lady wearing suit jacket over a patterned shirt, smiling. The portrait is overlaid on an image of a Nittany Lion statue.

Advanced Practice Provider Spotlight: Neonatal clinical nurse specialist explores how diversity and language services improve patient care

Apr 23, 2024

Neonatal clinical nurse specialist Heather Stephens highlights the critical need for more diversity among advanced practice providers to serve the increasingly diverse patient population.

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 […]

In a hospital office, one nurse is seated in the foreground facing the desk, while another nurse stands above her smiling towards the rest of the room.

The power of positive leadership: Nurse manager transforms operating room team

Feb 7, 2024

Ever since she was a child, Katelyn Mertz dreamed of becoming a nurse. As she grew older, her ambition focused on a specific goal ─ to become an operating room […]

Gajewski is seated at his desk facing the camera with an MRI scan visible on his computer screen. Behind him in the lab is the MRI machine.

Balancing act: How chief MRI technologist helps team find work-life harmony

Feb 2, 2024

With 32 years of experience in health imaging, Fred Gajewski has had a fulfilling—and busy—career. His work has taken him across the U.S. and the world, from Oregon to Massachusetts, […]

Osiris Martinez-Urquilla holds up a vial in front of lab testing equipment at Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center’s laboratory. She is wearing a lab coat and rubber gloves. Her hair is in a ponytail. Behind her is a work bench with laptops and two chairs.

Forging a new future: Tuition reimbursement helps lab manager advance her career

Oct 12, 2023

When Osiris Martinez-Urquilla arrived in the United States from El Salvador in 2004, she was hopeful for what this new beginning would mean for her future. Education has always been […]

Emma Anselmo, foreground, and Caira Whitney, emergency medical technicians with Penn State Health Life Lion, LLC transport Donald Gray from the ambulance to his rehabilitation on Friday, July 8, 2022.

Adventure awaits: These staff members thrive on the unexpected

Sep 22, 2023

A day in the life at Penn State Health on the West Shore

Liz Edwards RN, left, shows Corene Parrish, BSN, RN, CPHON right. a picture of herself playing hockey as a child at Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital Friday, May 27, 2022. Parrish was diagnosed with Hodgkinâ€™s lymphoma at age 16 and treated Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital.

‘Always rise above’: Pediatric cancer survivor, now Penn State Health nurse, passes along hope

Sep 22, 2023

The first time she lost a young patient to the same foe that almost claimed her life, Corene Parrish came face to face with a new enemy – survivor’s guilt.

Penn State Health Senior Recruiter Katy Rush poses at Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center Wednesday, June 14, 2023.

Employee Health Care Concierge Service makes appointment scheduling easy

Sep 22, 2023

As a senior recruiter for Penn State Health, Katy Rush is used to promoting the health system’s comprehensive benefits to prospective employees.

Jaime Natale, Nancy Fonseca and Maria Jimenez hold hands as they stand in front of chairs and IV poles in the infusion center at Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center. Natale has short, curly hair pulled back from her face with a headband and wears scrubs. Fonseca, who has brown hair and glasses, wears a shirt and pants. Jimenez, who has short, curly hair and glasses, wears a sweater and pants.

Cancer Survivors Bond Together

Sep 22, 2023

Three Penn State Health oncology employees share their personal cancer survival stories and how their diagnosis helps them better serve their patients

Imran Dawood, left, and his brother Yasin, are respiratory therapists at Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical Center.

From Kenya to Camp Hill: Brothers’ journey helps patients breathe easier

Sep 22, 2023

Brothers follow same career path to become respiratory therapists