Category: Patient Care

Two cranes sit in front of the entrance to the Children’s Hospital. A chain link fence wraps around the front of the building. Construction cones and other items are scattered about.

Penn State Health, College of Medicine team develops protocols for managing newborns exposed to mothers with COVID-19

Aug 3, 2020

A team at Penn State Hershey Medical Center and College of Medicine developed guidelines for managing newborns exposed to mothers with confirmed or suspected COVID-19.

Emma Munger wears a mask and leans forward in a hospital bed to pet Becky, a golden retriever, who stares into Munger’s eyes. Behind them stands a woman in a mask and lanyards.

Out of the dog house: Facility dogs return to work

Jul 20, 2020

As Penn State Health works to emerge from COVID-19 restrictions, its four-legged therapists are gently nosing their way back through the doors as well. Facility dogs Becky and Kaia arrived at work for the first time on June 16.

A pregnant woman’s hands touch her belly. The midsection of a doctor can be seen in the background wearing a lab coat. A stethoscope is wrapped around his neck.

Cerner PowerChart Maternity and FetaLink launch July 26

Jul 14, 2020

Penn State Health will implement a new, integrated system to care for its pregnant patients and their newborns on Sunday, July 26.

Tina Hedgepeth, a registered nurse at Hershey Medical Center, stands next to the motorized cart. One part is a huge cabinet on wheels with five drawers. It hitches to the other part, which includes baskets for storing items and a monitor mounted on a pole.

Innovation changes the way team rolls

Jul 1, 2020

A new motorized cart makes transporting heavy ultrasound equipment easier at Hershey Medical Center.

Melanie Potiaumpai, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar with The ONE Group, works with cancer patient Curt Chambers in the exercise room at Penn State Cancer Institute in 2018. Both are smiling and Chambers is pulling on a resistance band.

New website offers cancer patients a different kind of medicine – exercise

Jun 29, 2020

A group of Penn State College of Medicine faculty are bringing a different kind of medicine to cancer patients and survivors – exercise.

A man and woman wearing face masks, gloves and disposable body and head covers sanitize a CT scan room after use by a COVID-19 patient at St. Joseph Medical Center.

High-tech meets high-touch to clean, disinfect Penn State Health facilities

Jun 26, 2020

From ultraviolet flashlights to germ-zapping robots, experts in infection prevention and Environmental Health Services use high-tech tools to keep Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center facilities clean.

Pelvic floor physical therapist Margaret Homan, left, holds a model pelvis in her hands as she discusses with Pamela Betz how therapy improves symptoms of pelvic floor dysfunction. They both are seated and wearing face masks.

Pelvic floor physical therapy offers relief for silent problem

Jun 25, 2020

Penn State Health St. Joseph has a new pelvic floor physical therapist on staff that is helping both men and women with pelvic floor disorders, including urinary incontinence, prolapsed bladder and pain.

An exercise physiologist touches the back of an older male patient as he stands in St. Joseph’s cardiac rehabilitation room. The man is wearing a heart monitor, a T-shirt and face mask. The exercise physiologist is wearing a long-sleeved shirt, a face mask and face shield.

Patients welcome restart of St. Joseph cardiac rehab program

Jun 8, 2020

Nearly seven weeks after temporarily suspending its cardiac rehabilitation services in response to COVID-19, Penn State Health St. Joseph welcomed back nearly all of its cardiac rehab patients without any significant safety concerns when the program resumed operations.

Image shows over the shoulder someone looking at a computer monitor. In one window on the monitor is the view of someone in a mask. To the right, someone in personal protective equipment works with a patient.

Faith, hands and technology: spiritual and physical therapy in the age of COVID-19

Jun 5, 2020

To slow the spread of COVID-19, therapists at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, to whom touch and close contact have become second nature, are staying clear of patients’ rooms and finding new ways to heal body, speech and spirit.

A woman in the passenger seat of a car smiles. Behind her, people line the roads and take photos.

Homecoming: Community welcomes loved one they thought they’d lost

Jun 4, 2020

Dozens of members of Brenda Pogue's family, friends and neighbors gathered at the edges of the road outside her home May 29 to give the 67-year-old a hero's welcome home.

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