Category: Patient Care

Dr. Zakiyah Kadry of Hershey Medical Center holds an oil painting created for her by a patient. She is wearing a white lab coat, top and gold necklace. The painting is in a wooden frame and shows flowers, Don Quixote, a coffee cup and a thank you note. Behind her are diplomas and plaques.

Penn State Liver Center gives State College woman second chance at life

A State College woman received a lifesaving liver transplant at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.

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A person dressed as the Penn State Nittany Lion sits at an outdoor table with a little girl and a man in a jacket and a ball cap. They are reflected in the window of a shop advertising bagels.

Providers share coffee, conversation with local residents

In honor of National Doctors’ Day March 30, several Penn State Health providers visited three area coffee shops to share a cup with patients and neighbors.

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Natasha Himes kisses her newborn baby boy as she holds him on her chest. He has surgical tape on his face and his wearing a striped shirt. Natasha has long curly hair and is wearing a cotton top.

Penn State Health doctors help Ephrata baby born with rare condition breathe easier

Penn State Health surgeons and the Lancaster Cleft Palate Clinic helped a baby boy overcome a rare condition that causes breathing difficulties.

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A man in a white shirt and black tie pushes a woman in a wedding gown in a wheelchair down a hospital corridor. With him are several members of the hospital staff in blue nurse’s uniforms. The nurse in the center wheels a tall stand from which dangle wires which are attached to the woman in the gown.

It’s about today: terminal prognosis doesn’t stop family, hospital from planning wedding

Staff at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center rally with the family of Maggie Garrett and Anthony Chalker to hold a wedding for the couple. The prognosis for Garrett’s stage 4 cancer gives her only weeks.

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A physician and two other care providers treat a patient who is lying in a bed in Hershey Medical Center’s new Radiology Outpatient Care Unit. A long hallway with a tiled floor shows five rooms. The care providers and patient are in the room on the right, which has a curtain and a door. A wheelchair is outside the door. Paintings are on the walls between each room. Medical waste containers are outside each room.

New Radiology Outpatient Care Unit improves patient safety, satisfaction

Patients at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center have a safer place to recover from sedation and anesthesia following radiology procedures thanks to the new Radiology Outpatient Care Unit.

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Marissa Aulenbach, right, a board-certified music therapist at Penn State Children’s Hospital, plays a guitar while registered nurse Lauren Libhart tends to 4-month-old Caden Hoover. The baby is lying in a crib with wires and monitors attached to his body. Aulenbach is wearing a blue, long-sleeved shirt and jeans. Libhart is wearing blue scrubs, a headband and glasses. Several toys are in the crib.

Patients find this prescription for therapy is music to their ears

Board-certified music therapists at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State Children’s Hospital therapists help control patients’ pain and anxiety, ease adjustment to the hospital setting and promote rehabilitation.

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Ramiah Martin sits reclined in a stroller; her sister sits beside her, placing her hand on Ramiah's arm.

Ramiah’s story: How patient care and medical innovation helped her overcome obstacles

A child with an extremely rare -- and usually fatal -- condition is being discharged after spending the first 13 months of her life in the hospital.

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Denise Brown, who suffers from aortic stenosis and needed heart valve replacement surgery, sits with Dr. John Conte at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Brown is sitting in an exam room on a chair next to Conte, who is sitting on a stool next to a desk on which his laptop sits, open. Brown wears a cannula in her nose to assist with breathing.

Custom made for her

Denise Brown, left, talks to Dr. John Conte about how she feels since he implanted an apical aortic conduit into her heart last February.

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Virtual reality helps Penn State Health St. Joseph pediatricians solve a problem

Dr. Jerry Lee, a pediatrician at Penn State Health St. Joseph Downtown Campus uses virtual reality goggles on young patients who are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and other conditions to distract them from medical procedures.

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Alyssa Kibler sits in her hospital bed at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, holding some clear tubing in her hand that is connected to a vial of medicine that registered nurse Amy Koffman has in her hands. Koffman wears a disposable gown and blue gloves as she leans down toward Kibler. Kibler is wearing a sweatshirt and has her hair in a ponytail.

Positive attitude beats ‘stupid bum lungs’ for cystic fibrosis patient

Alyssa Kibler, a 33-year-old cystic fibrosis patient from Harrisburg, gets lifesaving help from Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center as she battles the chronic disease.

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