Category: Patient Care

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

Mar 27, 2019

There was nothing unusual about Natasha Himes’s seventh pregnancy or delivery. Like her previous six, both were easy and uncomplicated. While all of her other children were born in a hospital, the Ephrata woman wanted to have this baby at home. Dec. 19, 2018, started out as any ordinary day. Himes’ children, ranging in age […]

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

Mar 18, 2019

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.

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

Mar 7, 2019

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.

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

Feb 13, 2019

After 12 days in the hospital, Hershey resident Anita Heckert could tell her optimism was waning, so when her occupational therapist suggested music therapy, she was game.

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

Jan 30, 2019

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.

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

Nov 28, 2018

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

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

Nov 14, 2018

Doctors at Penn State Health St. Joseph Downtown Pediatric Practice had a problem. A patient – a 13-year-old boy – was recently in need of immunizations. Doctors also wanted to draw blood, as the boy was taking psychiatric medications that call for routine monitoring. The problem was that the child, who had recently moved to […]

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

Oct 25, 2018

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.

A physician in a white coat stands next to a patient who's in a hospital bed. The doctor's hands are placed on the patient's shoulder and neck area.

“Every day is a gift:” 500th heart transplant patient celebrates milestone with gratitude

Oct 11, 2018

Not a day goes by that David Wheeler doesn’t think about the fact that the heart beating in his chest isn’t the one he began life with 56 years ago.

In a clinic room, a man in a tie speaks with a woman who’s holding an infant and facing away from the camera. Three other people are in the room, standing and looking on.

Lancaster Cleft Palate Clinic marks 80 years of improving children’s lives

Aug 21, 2018

By Kyle Hardner As a medical student, Dr. Cathy Henry knew she wanted to be a pediatrician. Then she did a rotation with pediatric plastic and reconstructive surgeon Dr. Donald Mackay at the Lancaster Cleft Palate Clinic. “It was life-changing,” Henry said. “The clinic just felt special. They really took care of patients the way […]

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