The LG Experience

On Oct. 19, Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health opened Penn Fertility Care—Lancaster General Health.

Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health has been engaged in strategic planning for decades, and I am pleased to share that we recently finalized our plan for fiscal years 2021 to 2025.

Every baby born at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health’s Women & Babies Hospital now receives the gift of a new book, thanks to a project conceived and coordinated by Barbara Schmidt, BSN, RNC-MNN, Couplet Care nurse.

Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health employees and Medical & Dental Staff members are encouraged to apply for grants to support their community outreach activities.

A new national effort to increase clinical trial participation by minority populations is being co-led by Randall Oyer, MD, medical director of Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health’s Ann B. Barshinger Cancer Institute, and Lori Pierce, MD, president of the Association of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).

When Theresa Timbario and her husband moved to Lancaster County to be near family, they never anticipated that within a year she would be facing breast cancer, much less a global pandemic.

Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health lost a beloved colleague and friend Aug. 5, 2020, with the sudden passing of Ronald Vincent Krak, MD, age 62.

On Aug. 19, two chaplains from Penn Medicine Lancaster General Hospital were each presented with a certificate and an “I am Gift of Life” Challenge Coin in recognition for the support they provided to a family who generously consented to organ donation on behalf of their loved one, who was dying.

Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health has expanded community access to opioid addiction treatment to more than a dozen primary-care offices throughout Lancaster County.

Representatives from the Lions Club District 14-D Lancaster-Lebanon Counties presented the Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health Foundation with two generous checks in July.