Effective Aug. 25, Deborah Berini stepped down as president of Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, the health system said in a statement.

Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center is the first hospital in Pennsylvania and the third in the nation to treat a patient with the Autostrut, an external digitally enabled robotic device designed to correct bone fractures and deformities.

Wellness in the workplace has always been about encouraging healthy diets, exercise and overall care of the body. But the COVID pandemic has shown that is it much more. 

Penn State Health named Dr. Mark Jarowenko vice president of medical affairs at Penn State Health Lancaster Medical Center, where he will lead development and recruitment of medical staff for the new hospital, which opens Oct. 3.

The much-anticipated Penn State Health Lancaster Medical Center will open its doors Oct. 3, a network spokesperson confirmed.

Students from hundreds of school districts in Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia raised almost $5.8 million in the fight to conquer childhood cancer to benefit Four Diamonds at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital, it was announced Friday.

The Children’s Hospital and Penn State College of Medicine, in Hershey, have approved creation of the Four Diamonds Center for Childhood Cancer Innovation, an expansion of Four Diamonds’ work to cure pediatric cancers.

A six-year fundraising campaign raised a record $316.96 million for Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine. 

Penn State Health has renamed its IBD center the Carlino Family Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center in Hershey, in recognition of a $5 million gift from philanthropists Peter and Marshia Carlino. 

Health care providers supercharged their telemedicine offerings as a result of the pandemic—however, how those providers will be reimbursed for virtual care moving forward is in question. 

Construction of Lancaster County’s newest hospital – the first to be built since the closing of UPMC Pinnacle Lancaster in February 2019 – is quickly nearing completion.

Penn State Health has filled two leadership positions at its West Shore hospitals.

Rite Aid Healthy Futures announced Thursday that it has provided $3 million in grant funding to 34 children’s hospitals in 15 states, including one in central Pennsylvania, through its Connecting Communities initiative.

Penn State Health has consolidated several medical and surgical specialties into a newly renovated location on the campus of its Holy Spirit Medical Center in Camp Hill.

Penn State’s annual IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon, commonly referred to as THON, broke its fundraising record this year by raising a total of $13.7 million in time for the student-run charity’s 50th anniversary.