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There’s always something happening at Lancaster General Health. Stay updated on the latest medical breakthroughs and events by checking our extensive news section regularly. With articles about local and national healthcare advances and issues, Lancaster General Health’s News Desk contains links to the information you want and need.
1/30/2012 - Central Penn Business Journal
by Jeff Geoghan
For nurses and staff looking at Lancaster General Hospital as an employment option, a real value-add is the “Home In The City” program that offers employees a loan against closing costs if they settle within a certain radius of the hospital campus within Lancaster.
1/27/2012 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By CINDY STAUFFER,Staff Writer
Patients can ask their doctor a question, make an appointment, check medical test results and refill prescriptions — all via their computer or smartphone.
1/26/2012 - TO THE EDITORS:
What an amazing cancer-treatment center we have here in Lancaster County.
1/26/2012 - WPMT Fox 43
For St. Joseph Health Ministries, this February represents the days of “Smiles and Roses.”
The nonprofit is seizing on National Children’s Dental Health Month by reaching out to new mothers and their infants in conjunction with three Lancaster County hospitals.
In February, each family of a baby born at Women and Babies Hospital
1/21/2012 - Lancaster Sunday News
Letter to the Editor,
I am an example of the advice Dr. Scott Deron gave in his Jan. 1 "In My Opinion" article.
1/17/2012 - TO THE EDITORS:
In our society, we mostly tend to hear the bad things that happen.
I had to spend my Christmas in the hospital this year and I was devastated. But as it turns out, something good did come out of it.
1/17/2012 - Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
BY CINDY STAUFFER, Staff Writer
The company that makes Twinkies is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Paula Deen, the queen of butter, announced this week she has diabetes and will be cooking lighter.
1/14/2012 - Lancaster Sunday News
by Mary Beth Schweigart, staff writer
Three part story, Page 1
For such a tiny piece of metal, the single bullet that twisted and tore its way through Brian Fantom's abdomen made a brutal impact.
1/14/2012 - Lancaster Sunday News
by Mary Beth Schweigart, staff writer
Three part story, Part 2, Page 8
When a gun goes off, lives change forever.
1/14/2012 - Lancaster Sunday News
by Mary Beth Schweigart, staff writer
Three part story, Part 3, Page 8
Lancaster General Hospital treats 2,000 trauma patients every year, including victims of shootings, stabbings, vehicle and farm accidents, falls, assaults and burns.
1/14/2012 - Lancaster Sunday News
By Michael Long, Sunday News Features Editor
A dozen sprightly, grizzled senior women circled the north half of the gymnasium in the Lampeter-Strasburg branch of the YMCA. They were a talkative, boisterous bunch, punching through their exercise routine, generating a little heat on an otherwise raw mid-December morning.
1/11/2012 - WGAL TV8
Although the state banned synthetic marijuana last year, there are new legal products people are using to get high.
1/11/2012 - WHP CBS 21
Dr. Jeffrey Kirchner of Lancaster General Health Comprehensive Care Medicine says one major problem causing the rise in HIV cases is that young people don’t remember the epidemic experienced in the 1980s and no longer think they're at-risk.
1/9/2012 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By CINDY STAUFFER, Staff Writer
Lancaster General Health hopes to extend its reach to a third city block by building an office building and its third parking garage on the former Lancaster YMCA property.
1/7/2012 - Three letters to the editor following The Heart Group's Dr. Scott Deron's "In My Opinion: Present yourself with the gift of self-care," which appeared in the Sunday News, January 1.
1/7/2012 - Lancaster Sunday News
By PAULA WOLF,Staff Writer
To Ken Culton, the number is "stunning."
1/1/2012 - BY JANE HOLAHAN, Staff Writer
Lancaster New Era/Lancaster Intelligencer Journal
Andrew Kniesly was in a hurry to come into the world.
1/1/2012 - By Jim Ryan
Central Penn Business Journal
Some Central Pennsylvania providers see no need for eHealth Collaborative
Companies and organizations advising the Corbett administration on building the Pennsylvania eHealth Collaborative have proposed using subscriptions to pay for the state's health records exchange, but some health care providers aren't buying in, saying it's unnecessary for their needs and could increase health care costs.
12/31/2011 - In The Spotlight
By Mary Ellen Wright, Sunday News Correspondent
Business always picks up at this time of year for Jacqui Zimmerman.
12/31/2011 - IN MY OPINION
By Dr. Scott Deron, Special to the Sunday News
I have seen too much human tragedy, largely self-inflicted. In 20 years I have treated too many diseased hearts. I have seen death visit long before its time.
12/31/2011 - WGAL TV 8
Featuring Dr. Scott Deron of The Heart Group and Medical On Your Side Reporter Susan Shapiro
Practical suggestions on ways to lose weight and keep it off.
12/31/2011 - HealthLeaders Magazine
by Marianne Aiello
Coordinated efforts involving the patient during and after hospitalization can improve outcomes and reduce costs.
12/27/2011 - LG Health Wellness Dietitian Jacqui Zimmerman talks with WGAL-TV medical reporter Susan Shapiro about a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
12/26/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
TO THE EDITORS:
I was admitted to Lancaster General Hospital om Oct. 28 in critical condition. During my 21 days in the hospital, I was in ICU and on 8 Lime. I am writing to express my gratitude for the care I received at LGH.
12/25/2011 - Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era
The following area students received degrees from Lancaster General College of Nursing & Health Sciences at a recognition ceremony on Dec. 16 at Double Tree Resort at Willow Valley.
12/23/2011 - BY CINDY STAUFFER, Staff Writer
Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era
Lancaster General Health is changing the way it does business in two patient care areas in 2012.
12/22/2011 - By Holly White
Central penn Business Journal
As the cost of health insurance continues to rise, midstate employers large and small are trying hard to maintain accustomed levels of the benefit for their employees, company leaders said.
12/18/2011 - By Holly White
Central Penn Business Journal
A Sheetz will open Thursday in Ephrata Township, the first of three businesses that will hire a total of about 95 people, company spokespeople said.
12/17/2011 - Sunday News
By KELLY SMEDLEY, Correspondent
George Cattell Jr. knows why winter exercise is a challenge.
"We go to work when it's dark and we come home when it's dark," said Cattell, an exercise physiologist with Lancaster General Health's LiveWell for Life employee fitness center.
12/14/2011 - Central Penn Business Journal
By Holly White
PinnacleHealth System today announced the merging of its home care services into VNA Community Care Services.
12/4/2011 - Fox 43 News
Kaitlyn Althouse, a first year nursing student from York, PA, won $100,000 at the Dr. Pepper half-time Tuition Giveaway.
12/4/2011 - In the Spotlight, Sunday News
By SUZANNE CASSIDY, Staff Writer
Nothing about the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse case has shocked or surprised Kari Stanley.
11/24/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By JOHN CASSIDY,Staff Writer
The night before my son was released from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Women & Babies Hospital, I purchased soft pretzels for the staff there.
11/17/2011 - WGAL TV8
The March of Dimes held a “Day of Gratitude” at Women & Babies Hospital in honor of the doctors and nurses who care for premature babies. November is Prematurity Awareness month.
11/16/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By CINDY STAUFFER,Staff Writer
You soon can fill up your gas tank, get a cup of coffee, have your chipped tooth fixed and get your wrist X-rayed — all in one spot.
An urgent dental care center and an urgent medical care center will be opening at a busy intersection near Ephrata, joining a Sheetz convenience store already being constructed there.
11/15/2011 - By Tim Stuhldreher, Central Penn Business Journal
Keith Orris vividly remembers the day years ago when he and John Fry toured the aging Armstrong World Industries Inc. flooring plant inLancaster's northwest quadrant.
11/3/2011 - Central Penn Business Journal
As the need for primary care physicians increases in the midstate, their numbers decrease statewide, according to the Hospital & Healthsystem Association in Pennsylvania.
10/27/2011 - Radio Smart Talk - WITF
Dr. Jennifer Kegel is a radiologist at Lancaster General Health and she has a unique perspective on breast cancer. That's because Dr. Kegel is a breast cancer survivor herself and she says it changed how she communicates with patients who have been disagnosed with breast cancer.
10/27/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/New Era
By DAVID O'CONNOR, Staff Writer
Lancaster General Health is planning to add 264 parking spaces to its Health Campus in East Hempfield Township.
The parking spots would be needed to accommodate staff and visitors during construction of the new $44 million Ann B. Barshinger Cancer Center, which is scheduled to be completed by spring 2013.
10/26/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By SUSAN JURGELSKI, Staff Writer
Brothers Jack and PJ couldn't wait to welcome twin sisters into the family.
The boys, now ages 4 and 3, were excited because they'd each be able to hold one of them.
10/24/2011 - Health & Medicine
Press release from: American Academy of Urgent Care Medicine
Lancaster General Health Urgent Care, an Urgent Care clinic in Lancaster, PA, has achieved Urgent Care Center Accreditation from the American Academy of Urgent Care Medicine (AAUCM).
10/15/2011 - Lancaster Sunday News
To the editors:
The recent survey results suggesting more than 2 million infants and young children are not fully protected against preventable diseases in the United States is totally unacceptable. Apparently more than one in 10 parents rejects the science and the proof that these immunizations not only prevent illness but death.
10/12/2011 - WGAL TV8
In honor of October being Breast Cancer Awareness month, Lancaster General Health hosted a Girls ‘n ‘Grams Party at the Lancaster General Health Suburban Outpatient Pavilion. Over 250 women attended the event, and over 180 mammograms were performed that night or booked for the future.
10/3/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By JEFF HAWKES,Staff Writer
Dr. Lydia Chang, 26, admired her childhood dentist and as early as junior high thought of following in her footsteps.Dr. Mary Beth Price, 29, was assisting an oral surgeon when she decided upon dentistry.
Now newly minted dentists, the women found their paths converging when they chose Lancaster for post-doctoral training.
9/27/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By SUSAN JURGELSKI, Staff Writer
Oatmeal has gone from classic to cutting edge.
The hearty hot cereal has come out of mom's cupboard and onto mainstream menus of chains such as McDonald's, which launched its oatmeal rendition in January. Burger King and Chick-fil-A — set to open a restaurant here in November — have been quick to throw their spoons in the ring.
9/20/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By CINDY STAUFFER, Staff Writer
You hate big needles. Just the thought of one makes you woozy about getting a flu shot.
9/16/2011 - Sunday News
By SUZANNE CASSIDY, Staff Writer
Last week, when Michele Bachmann claimed that a cervical cancer vaccine had caused "mental retardation" in a young girl, physicians here and across the country groaned.
9/14/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/New Era
By TOM KNAPP,Staff Writer
Hannah Garman is still inspiring others.
Hannah, who was diagnosed with inoperable cancer and inspired a worldwide flood of Christmas cards to her Lititz home, was 5 years old when she died on June 16, 2009.
9/14/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By CINDY STAUFFER, Staff Writer
Linda Armstrong Kelly knew her son was a contender when she traveled with him to the Junior National cycling time trials, she told a local group Wednesday.
9/13/2011 - WGAL TV 8
Morning Reporter Anne Shannon
News 8 morning reporter Anne Shannon was live at the Ann B. Barshinger Cancer Center prior to the 9:30 a.m. groundbreaking event. At 5:30 a.m. she interviewed Lancaster General Health's Heather Wilson and Dr. Randall Oyer and at 6:30 a.m. she interviewed Dr. Randall Oyer and Jay Bucher.
9/11/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By JOHN CASSIDY, Staff Writer
My son's hands were clenched, shaking, an alarming blend of red and purple.
I could see Jake through the glass window of the nursery at Women & Babies Hospital, and I noticed that most of the other babies were calm or slumbering, though a few seemed to be perturbed.
9/10/2011 - Sunday News
By Gil Smart,Editor
Sept. 11, 2001, was one of the deadliest days in American history.
But in a roundabout way, the events of that terrible day might have saved lives in Lancaster County during the terrible, rain-soaked days of last week.
8/18/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By ENELLY BETANCOURT, Staff Writer
August is almost gone! That means back-to-campus time for college students everywhere.
Area colleges and universities soon will be buzzing with activity as they welcome both first-year and returning students.
8/16/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By AD CRABLE,Staff Writer
Ken Griswold was in the silo filled with recently harvested chopped green corn for seven minutes.
By the time he had climbed out and was on the ground, he was having a hard time catching his breath.
8/14/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By CINDY STAUFFER,Staff Writer
Traffic and parking near Lancaster General Hospital will be altered this week as a large crane will install a mechanical unit on the roof of the hospital.
8/9/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By CINDY STAUFFER, Staff Writer
Dr. Randy Oyer was at the airport about six weeks ago when his cellphone rang.
It was a York County man who had tracked down the director of Lancaster General Hospital's cancer treatment program in the hopes that he could bring his wife to LGH because she could not get the cancer drugs she needed in their community.
8/6/2011 - By GIL SMART, Associate Editor
Sunday News
They've been working on the railroad.
And the new rail yard tucked behind the Lancaster Post Office on Harrisburg Pike is just about done.
8/5/2011 - News 8 Today Weekend
The DaVinci surgical robot was on display Saturday, Aug. 6 at Park City Mall in Lancaster. People lined up to try their hand at the machine, which is usually at the hands of surgeons at Lancaster General Hospital.
8/4/2011 - by John George
Philadelphia Business Journal
"Another health system from outside the region is looking to set up shop in the Philadelphia suburbs.
Lancaster General Health wants to build a $15 million outpatient-care center in Chester County.
7/30/2011 - Sunday News
By PAULA WOLF, Staff Writer
Alice M. Yoder worked on the front lines in the 1990s to combat what was called "the silent epidemic."
7/23/2011 - Sunday News
By CHIP SMEDLEY,Staff Writer
Supersized curbs at two intersections made a city resident wonder if they would impede emergency vehicles responding to calls on Juniata and Terrace streets.
7/21/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By BRIAN WALLACE, Staff Writer
The newly implemented national health care law could help improve the vision of students at Lancaster's Washington Elementary School.
7/20/2011 - WGAL TV8
Meredith Jorgensen, reporter
The heat is being blamed for more than two dozen deaths across the country. So it's important that you take steps to protect yourself and your family. News 8's Lancaster reporter Meredith Jorgensen joins us live from the emergency room at Lancaster General Hospital with Dr. Bill Adams, Director of Emergency Medicine.
7/6/2011 - Daily Local News, Chester County
By GRETCHEN METZ, Staff Writer
SADSBURY — Lancaster General Hospital is continuing its march into Chester County.
7/4/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
BY KIMBERLY MARSELAS, Correspondent
Since he makes his living as a carpenter, you'd think Dwayne Whitehead would be immune to the kinds of dust and irritants that trigger runny noses in millions of Americans.
6/27/2011 - WGAL News at 5:30 p.m.
They're calling it the Summer of Survival, trying to teach more than 50,000 people how to do CPR. LGH ER Doctor Mike Reihard and Lancaster EMS join forces to reach that goal.
6/25/2011 - Lancaster Sunday News
By DR. JEFFREY T. KIRCHNER, In My Opinion
June 5 marked the 30th anniversary of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report about previously healthy young men who were diagnosed with a rare type of pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis carinii. Within one year this disease would be named acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
6/24/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By CINDY STAUFFER,Staff Writer
Lancaster General Health is getting its chief executive officer back. After an almost eight-month leave for military service, Tom Beeman will return to work at Lancaster General in early July.
6/16/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/New Era
When Jessica D. Schell's grandfather was a patient at the Lebanon Veterans Affairs Medical Center she visited him with her family. She came away impressed with how he was "surrounded by all the nurses there" and well cared for.
6/15/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By CLAUDIA W. ESBENSHADE, Staff Writer
It's the time of year when everyone flocks to the outdoors. Whether it be to exercise, work or just lounge by the pool, staying hydrated is important to one's health and finding the proper sources of hydration is important also, according to dietitian Janelle Glick of Lancaster General Health.
6/14/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By CINDY STAUFFER, Staff Writer
If you have a toothache on a Tuesday night or chip your tooth in a Sunday afternoon basketball game, Dr. Anthony Skiadas wants to see you. The Manheim Township dentist is opening a dental urgent care center in East Hempfield Township, next to a medical urgent care center.
6/12/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
Officials from the Make–A–Wish Foundation SouthEast Lancaster Health Services and Lancaster County Business Group on Health were honored by the Lancaster City and County Medical Society at its recent meeting.
6/9/2011 - Lebanon Daily News
Editor,
Today millions of people in the U.S. are living with or have battled cancer.It's estimated that half of all men and one-third of all women will develop cancer in their lifetimes. If you're a woman, look at yourself and two of your friends - one of you will be diagnosed with cancer.
6/5/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By TOM KNAPP, Staff Writer
In less than four minutes Sunday, nearly 4,000 people learned how to perform CPR. "I remember my first CPR class. It was four hours long," said Michael Reihart, medical director for the Lancaster Emergency Medical Services Association and associate medical director of pre-hospital services at Lancaster General Hospital. "It was crazy."
6/4/2011 - Sunday News
By GIL SMART, Associate Editor
The ads are hard to miss. One Penn State Hershey Medical Center billboard looms over Route 30, near Red Rose Commons shopping center. Another towers above Dillerville Road, less than a mile away. On the far side of Lancaster city, a third stands along New Holland Avenue. And a mailer sent out to thousands of households in Lancaster County last month delivered the same message: Penn State Hershey is just a short drive away.
6/2/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By ENELLY BETANCOURT, Staff Writer
Community residents and three local churches will rally Saturday to aid Jim Sebest, a self-employed contractor who was seriously injured in a swimming accident last year.
5/28/2011 - WGAL News 8
Nate Englerth is out of the hospital following a freak accident where a tree impaled him when it fell on his car. He was treated at Lancaster General Hospital and shared his story with News 8.
5/25/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By CINDY STAUFFER, Staff Writer
Two Lancaster hospitals had death and readmission rates within an expected range for heart surgery, and their charges were lower than the statewide average, according a recent state report.
5/21/2011 - Sunday News
By GIL SMART, Associate Editor
Lancaster General Hospital ended fiscal year 2009-2010 with a multimillion-dollar surplus. It's a healthy chunk of change — but less than half the surplus the nonprofit booked just four years ago.
5/20/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By AMANDA KENNEDY, Staff Writer
Amy Bloomfield and Huyen Duong felt like celebrities Friday night. They were the first two students to graduate from the cardiac electrophysiology program at Lancaster General College of Nursing and Health Sciences, the first accredited associate degree program of its kind in the United States.
5/16/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By CINDY STAUFFER, Staff Writer
Kim and Ella Mae made the dark days bearable for Jennifer Hassel. The two nurses administered chemotherapy to Hassel's husband, Dr. Mark Hassel, who was battling stomach cancer. But they did much more.
5/14/2011 - Sunday News
By JACK BRUBAKER, Staff Writer, Media Center
When Bernie Grimm discovered his father-in-law's nursing home did not have an automated external defibrillator, he was surprised. When personnel at Luther Acres in Lititz told Grimm defibrillators are not required in nursing homes and they don't intend to install one in theirs, he was alarmed.
5/5/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By CINDY STAUFFER, Staff Writer
People are putting off elective surgeries. They are postponing laboratory tests. Some are avoiding the hospital altogether, if they can. As a result, most local hospitals saw their profits plummet for the third year in a row, according to a new state report released today.
5/4/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By JEFF HAWKES, Staff Writer
As a kid, I gorged on potato chips. Lunch wasn't lunch without a mountain of chips leaving a satisfying rim of oil around my lips. Potato chips were such a big deal that a uniformed guy in a step van delivered tins to our door.
5/3/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By CINDY STAUFFER, Staff Writer
Raspberries, cantaloupes, arugula, artichokes and peppers are coming to the parking lots of city schools this summer. Farmers will be selling fresh produce in neighborhoods that don't have easy access to it, in a push to promote healthy eating here. Lancaster City, Lancaster General Health and Lighten Up Lancaster have joined forces on the project.
5/2/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By P.J. REILLY, Staff Writer
Christopher P. Larsen, the idealist, would like to see an end to the sexual exploitation of children. But the realist in Lancaster County's first assistant district attorney is pessimistic about that prospect.
4/16/2011 - Sunday News
By MARY ELLEN WRIGHT, Correspondent
Breast cancer is a crucible that challenges and changes many women. They face the sudden trauma of mastectomy, the sickness and hair loss of chemotherapy and the burning of radiation treatments. But sometimes, from that crucible emerges a feisty new advocate for other women with the disease — a woman armed with knowledge born of personal experience, and a personality strong enough to spread a message and bring change.
4/9/2011 - Reading Eagle
By DARRIN YOUKER, Reporter
For the better part of two decades, the Lancaster City School District has been able to count on an unusual source of funding to help its budget: the local hospital. Every year Lancaster General Hospital gives cash and services to the school district, including a free clinic for some of the city's poorest elementary schools.
4/6/2011 - WITF
Three of the region’s health systems and WITF Public Media have joined forces to bring in-depth information and cancer resources to the people of central Pennsylvania. Facing Cancer Together is an interactive, community education partnership of Lancaster General Health, WellSpan Health, PinnacleHealth and WITF Public Media.
4/4/2011 - The Patriot-News
Uma Baral laughs a lot as she answers questions about her family’s adventures since arriving in Lancaster in September, after spending her entire life — 18 years — in a refugee camp in Nepal.
4/2/2011 - The Patriot News Body/Mind Lancaster edition
By CAROLYN KIMMEL
Urgent Care Centers are taking pressure off emergency rooms. Read how Lancaster General Health and other area healthcare providers have embraced this trend.
4/2/2011 - The Patriot News Body/Mind Lancaster edition
By DIANE WHITE MCNAUGHTON
The words, “you have cancer” can send seismic shock waves through even t he most steely and strong-willed person. Suddenly, you are a patient hurtling into unknown territory, a lonely and mysterious place. But you are not alone. An entire team of specialists are working with you. Here are just a few of the people that you might encounter on Team Survivor.
3/31/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By CINDY STAUFFER, Staff Writer
Disturbing problems with "bath salts" — a legal drug that's been called "PCP on steroids" — continue to increase here and across the state. Violent, jittery, paranoid people who have taken the powdery substance are showing up at a hospital emergency room here.
3/31/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By CINDY STAUFFER, Staff Writer
Your doctor's office may become your "medical home," the main place you go for care, nutrition counseling and other steps to make sure your diabetes or congestive heart failure is under control or that you are living a healthy lifestyle.
3/29/2011 - WITF
witf, public media center and valued source of educational, inspiring and creative content in Central PA, is proud to announce its partnership with three regional health systems to launch Facing Cancer Together—an effort to increase the community’s knowledge about cancer.
3/22/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By CINDY STAUFFER, Staff Writer
Blow out your first candle. Take your first steps. Look out the front windshield. It used to be a rite of passage for children. When they hit their first birthday, their parents could turn their car seats around, from the rear-facing to the forward-facing position.
3/21/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By CLAUDIA W. ESBENSHADE, Staff Writer
Robert Cioffi has smoked since he was 13 — he is now 62. He struggled with breaking the habit many times. After being diagnosed with chronic bronchitis and emphysema, he has finally quit, he says, with the help of the electronic cigarette.
3/19/2011 - Sunday News
By JAN BERGEN, CEO Lancaster General Health
Pennsylvania is consistently identified as having one of the worst legal climates in the nation for medical liability claims. The high legal costs paid by Pennsylvania health care providers, employers and governments inhibit job growth, increase health care costs and limit access to medical care.
3/13/2011 - WGAL TV-8
By SUSAN SHAPIRO, Reporter
A Lancaster man came back from the dead, thanks to technology. He went into full cardiac arrest, but his heart was shocked back into rhythm by something he was wearing.
3/10/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By CINDY STAUFFER, Staff Writer
In Pennsylvania, we are the top dog, beating out Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, York, Harrisburg and — probably to no one's surprise — Scranton. Nationally, we are ahead of San Francisco, Boston, Atlanta and — start spreading the news — New York. Lancaster County ranked 15th out of 188 cities and metropolitan areas in the 2010 Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, released this week.
3/10/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By KATHLEEN DAMINGER, Staff Writer
If art has the power to heal, then showcasing it in a hospital makes perfect sense. "Women's Expressions" is an art exhibit by women that benefits women, opening this weekend at LGH's Women and Babies Hospital. The biennial exhibit features works by more than 50 local and regional artists, and a few from out of state.
3/6/2011 - Sunday News
By SUZANNE CASSIDY, Staff Writer
When it came time to decide whether to vaccinate her two young children, one Marietta mother relied on her instincts. "When I looked at the vaccination plan, especially in the first year of life, it just seemed overwhelming," Tabea Steinbeisser-Fitz said.
2/26/2011 - Sunday News
By CLAUDIA W. ESBENSHADE, Staff Writer
Fashion, music and entertainment trends might be fun to follow, but other trends are meant to be bucked. According to family doctors, residents of Lancaster County are following along with some of the more troubling national health trends: a lackadaisical attitude toward influenza, a lack of health insurance and, especially, an increase in obesity.
2/20/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By CINDY STAUFFER, Staff Writer
Verna Newcomer, an 88-year-old widow, is a teacher. So is Henry Walsh, 72, a retired clerk with two grown children. The pair teach local student nurses how to take care of them, how to separate a person from a prescription, and how to see a human being and not just a disease.
2/16/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By SUSAN JURGELSKI, Staff Writer
Four-year-old Brayden Heisey pinches the penny between his fingers, and then pitches it into the wavy water of the fountain, mesmerized as the copper coin is swallowed up and sinks slowly to the bottom. The floor of the penny fountain "wishing well," one of two in the lobby of the Lancaster General health campus suburban outpatient pavilion, is layered with circular currency of all denominations, and Brayden has given his 1 cent.
2/13/2011 - WGAL TV-8
By SUSAN SHAPIRO, Reporter
WGAL TV medical reporter Susan Shapiro was in a Lancaster General Hospital operating room to observe cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Jeffrey Cope perform a single cardiac bypass using the da Vinci S Surgical System.
2/12/2011 - Sunday News
By JON RUTTER, Staff Writer
Anyone who's ever marched into combat comes back changed, Tom Beeman says. "They're suffering from the existential wounds of war." To help heal soldiers with traumatic brain injury and psychological damage, he's put on hold his career as chief executive officer of Lancaster General Health and president of Lancaster General Hospital.
2/9/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By CINDY STAUFFER, Staff Writer
They were right all along. Many local doctors balked when a federal task force recommended two years ago that they raise the starting age and reduce the frequency of mammograms for women.
2/9/2011 - WGAL TV-8
News story featuring Randy Oyer, MD, talking about the change regarding lymph node removal.
2/9/2011 - WGAL TV-8
By SUSAN SHAPIRO, Reporter
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has re-launched an investigation involving a link between crib bumpers and baby deaths and injuries.
2/5/2011 - Sunday News
By PAULA WOLF, Staff Writer
Already the parent of two teenage girls, Lancaster resident Daffney Price found herself pregnant at age 40. It was no accident. Price, a longtime single mom, married her husband, Mike, in October 2009. The couple decided they wanted a child, and their daughter, Emma, was born Dec. 1.
2/5/2011 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By CINDY STAUFFER, Staff Writer
One local nursing home has restricted visitors to stop the spread of illness. Achy patients are starting to fill up doctors' offices. Coughing, feverish kids are starting to fill up hospital beds. The flu is here, it's widespread and it's not done yet.
8/3/2010 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By BERNARD HARRIS, Staff Writer
SouthEast Lancaster Health Services quietly opened the doors of its new Arch Street clinic on Monday.
8/1/2010 - By MIKE REUTHER -
Williamsport Sun-Gazette
Putting forth an idea that many see as radical can brand one as a maverick or even, one dare say, a nut.
7/28/2010 - Intelligencer Journal/ Lancaster New Era
By TAYLOR BUNDY, Staff Writer
She visits unsuspecting outdoor enthusiasts and innocent passers-by every summer.
7/21/2010 - By Yancy Casey
FierceCIO
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Set to launch its new electronic health initiative by April 2011, Lancaster General Health (LG Health) has signed an enterprise medical imaging agreement with McKesson aimed at improving radiologist and physician workflow and overall patient care.
7/17/2010 - Sunday News
By ERIC G. STARK, Staff Writer
For John Shenk, a little extra time in the hospital made for good father-daughter bonding.
7/14/2010 - WHP CBS 21 News At 5:30 PM
WHP-TV (CBS) CH 21, Harrisburg/Lancaster/Lebanon/York | DMA: 39
The L-Vad surgery used to only be a temporary surgery, the bridge before a heart transplant.
7/12/2010 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By JENNIFER TODD, Staff Writer
Lancaster General Health officials said Tuesday they will redeploy nearly 170 full- and part-time employees within the health system during the next 90 days.
7/8/2010 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
Brethren Village, Lancaster General Hospital and other nonprofit organizations have received unjustified criticism for not paying local real estate taxes. At the same time, our local municipal governments have received unjustified criticism for not trying to force the nonprofits to pay taxes which they do not owe. (Bart Sheaffer, letter to the editors, June 23)
7/7/2010 - News 8 health reporter Susan Shapiro follows up with the Survances, a couple WGAL profiled months ago as they under went weight-loss surgery. Did it work? Click to view clip.
7/6/2010 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By TOM MURSE, Staff Writer
The temperature topped 100 again on Wednesday.
7/3/2010 - Sunday News
By SUSAN JURGELSKI, Staff Writer
Kids aren't the only ones who need a shot in the arm.
Adults should roll up their sleeves, too.
7/3/2010 - Sunday News
By BILL ADAMS, Sunday's Guest
Should your fingerprints be on file with the FBI? If you call 911 in a dire emergency in a sensational event, should television be allowed to broadcast your voice and your name? Should a surveillance camera capture you getting out of your car on a city street?
7/1/2010 - CBS 21
Josh Pennington was honored with military honors at Fort Indiantown Gap Cemetery.
His loved ones gathered to remember Josh in a prayer service.
7/1/2010 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By JANE HOLAHAN, Staff Writer
Maryellen Leed looked at the bandage on her arm and smiled. "It was as easy as pie, anyway. I'll do it again in eight weeks."
6/30/2010 - WHTM Channel 27
Lancaster, Pa. - Co-workers at RR Donnelly in Lancaster County think very highly of Kristin Skowood.
6/29/2010 - Ephrata Review
Ephrata Community Hospital and Lancaster General Health are among 15 other hospitals
6/29/2010 - By Marcella Peyre-Ferry
Community Courier – Gap, Oxford edition
The Lancaster County Safe Kids Coalition recently hosted a Farm Safety Day Camp at the White Horse Fire Company.
6/29/2010 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
TO THE EDITORS:
My wife and I had twin boys at Women & Babies Hospital on April 9. They were born six weeks premature. Both of the boys were in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, one for 16 days and the other for 20.
6/24/2010 - Intelligencer Journal/ Lancaster New Era
By TIM MEKEEL, Staff Writer
The Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry honored Michael Mitchell, Marilyn Walker and Lancaster General Health at its 138th annual dinner Thursday in the Lancaster County Convention Center.
6/21/2010 - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
By CLAUDIA W. ESBENSHADE, Staff Writer
When Teresa (not her real name) found out she had HIV, she immediately was thankful for the strides in medicine that had been made to fight the disease.
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