Category: Patient Care

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.

A woman wearing a mask, gloves and sweatshirt stands next to a stack of cardboard boxes from the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank. Behind her is a row of tables in a warehouse and three people out of focus.

St. Joseph opens curbside X-ray service to ensure patient safety

May 5, 2020

Penn State Health St. Joseph opened a curbside chest X-ray service at the medical center’s main entrance at 2500 Bernville Road on May 4. This new service is part of its continued efforts to ensure patient safety during the coronavirus pandemic.

Lisa Omelko, a lab technician in the Blood Bank at St. Joseph Medical Center, wears blue gloves and squeezes a bag of gold-colored plasma before it is used for a patient transfusion in one of the medical center’s COVID-19 units. Omelko, who is wearing glasses and a face mask, is resting her arms on the cooler used to transport the plasma.

St. Joseph transfuses increasing number of patients with convalescent plasma therapy

May 4, 2020

St. Joseph Medical Center has begun using an experimental treatment program called convalescent plasma therapy with a growing number of its COVID-19 positive patients.

A pair of gloved hands holding another hand without a glove, in a hospital setting.

A Message from the Patient Experience Leadership Team

Apr 30, 2020

Throughout this week, you’ve read stories of how our employees at Penn State Health are making a difference in our patients’ lives. We conclude the week with a powerful patient experience story from a recovered COVID-19 patient.

The rubber gloved hand of a health care worker is shown holding the hand of a patient.

Patient Experience Week: doctors heal in many ways

Apr 30, 2020

For Patient Experience Week, Dr. Laura Van Scoy shares a letter from a patient that moved her.

Martha Jansen wears scrubs and talks on a cordless phone.

We are family: COVID-19 brings Hershey Medical Center front-line workers together

Apr 30, 2020

Hershey Medical Center has made use of its unique qualifications to manage the crisis: It’s one of several academic hospitals in the country that have received funding for infrastructure and specialized training to offer care during the outbreak of a seriously lethal contagion and help minimize its spread.

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