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Penn State Health, Highmark to open new Cumberland County health center
Penn State Health, Highmark to open new Cumberland County health center
Listen to this articlePenn State Health and Highmark Health plan to begin construction on a new health practice at Highmark‘s corporate campus in East Pennsboro Township, Cumberland County.
The new Penn State Health Medical Group — East Pennsboro practice is expected to begin construction this summer and open in the fall, the two organizations wrote in a press release on Thursday.
“The new clinic in East Pennsboro Township is a critical access point for primary care, point of care testing and referrals for specialty services,” said Deborah Rice-Johnson, president of Highmark. “Highmark is a proud partner of Penn State Health and we are pleased to provide vital services for our employees and community members who live and work in central Pennsylvania.”
The clinic is planned to be 7,400 square feet in size and will have three Penn State Health providers upon opening.
Members of the community are free to visit the clinic along with the 3,500 local Highmark employees who work on the campus.
Pittsburg-based architecture firm AE7 is designing the building and the engineering firm on the project is Cambria County-based HF Lenz.
Penn State Health and Highmark have also partnered on two multi-million dollar medical centers in the midstate– the Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center in Cumberland County, planned to be finished in mid-2021, and the Lancaster Medical Center in Lancaster County, planned to be finished in 2022.
“Alongside Highmark, Penn State Health continues to deliver on a promise to improve health care access and choice in central Pennsylvania,” said Dr. Peter Dillon, chief clinical officer at Penn State Health. “With this most recent clinic addition to our system, residents close to Cumberland County have a new, state-of-the-art facility where they can choose to receive high-quality care.”
