Category: Meet Our Team

Military Veteran Brings Crisis Skills to Penn State Health ER

Nov 5, 2024

There’s a running joke in the Emergency Department at Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical Center. If something is going haywire or if there’s a rush of patients bursting through […]

A Woman stands far to one side with her back to a display of photographs on a wall as she gestures for people to look at the photos behind her.

Compassion on display at Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center

Sep 17, 2024

The Compassion Project is an interactive photography installation that honors St. Joseph Medical Center’s staff and volunteers—collectively the embodiment of compassion.

a certified medical assistant at Penn State Medical Group – assists a patient by taking their blood pressure. She is wearing blue scrubs and a name badge.

Penn State Health medical assistants reveal rewards of their careers

Aug 7, 2024

Changing lives, finding fulfillment: Penn State Health certified medical assistants reveal rewards of their careers When Kayla Bomgardner graduated from Annville-Cleona High School in 2019, she was uncertain about her […]

A pharmacist at Penn State Health's Holy Spirit Medical Center, stands smiling in the pharmacy, surrounded by shelves of medical supplies and charts.

Pharmacy Career at Penn State Health: Pharmacist Shares Benefits

Jul 31, 2024

Discover how Elizabeth Kendall’s 33-year pharmacy career at Penn State Health showcases teamwork, flexibility and professional growth.

Group of health care workers in different styled scrub caps, featuring floral, cartoon and abstract designs, showcasing their unique personalities and styles.

Every Scrub Cap Tells a Story at Penn State Health – Join Us!

Jun 7, 2024

Discover how Penn State Health embraces personal expression through vibrant scrub caps. Meet our team and see how you can make a difference.

Jane Pizarro, a licensed practical nurse at Penn State Health St. Joseph Downtown Campus listens to patient Kelvin Bernard Tyler Jr. She is wearing scrubs, a long-sleeved shirt, lanyard and name badge and has glasses on her head. He is wearing sweatpants and a sweatshirt and is gesturing toward his neck. He has a blood pressure cuff on his arm and a pulse monitor on his finger.

Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center nurses reflect on their ‘noble profession’

May 10, 2024

Three St. Joseph Medical Center nurses share relate why they entered the profession and how the medical center supports nursing.

[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, […]