WellSpan Health provides update on COVID-19 response, planning efforts
WellSpan Health today announced plans to double the number of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds at its acute care hospitals, in anticipation of a significant increase in the number of COVID-19 patient...
View ArticleWellSpan Waynesboro Hospital founded on community support
The Waynesboro community has a long history of coming together in times of need. For WellSpan Waynesboro Hospital, that history spans all the way to its founding a century ago in response to the...
View ArticleRetired nurse and veteran returns to front lines in COVID-19 battle
Two years ago, Pete Guzman retired from his duties as an Emergency Department nurse at WellSpan York Hospital. With his wife, two grown children and three grandkids, he always knew he’d stay busy in...
View ArticleWellSpan Health unites with community partners to care for vulnerable...
Imagine the challenges if you are homeless or living in temporary housing and starting to exhibit the fever, cough and other symptoms of coronavirus.How can you isolate from others if you are living in...
View ArticleWellSpan Requests Patients and Visitors to Wear Face Coverings
Following recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Pennsylvania Department of Health (Pa. DOH), WellSpan requests that patients and visitors wear a protective...
View ArticleWellSpan Health joins 100 Million Mask Challenge
WellSpan Health today announced it is joining the 100 Million Mask Challenge, an initiative launched by the American Hospital Association to help meet growing demand for masks during the COVID-19...
View ArticleFrom ventilator to discharge: WellSpan COVID-19 patient celebrated by caregivers
Following a nearly two-week stay, and 10 days on a ventilator, a Cumberland County man who received treatment for COVID-19 at WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital was cheered on by his caregivers as he was...
View ArticleWellSpan teams up with local distilleries to make hand sanitizer
A WellSpan pharmacist has a prescription to ease a COVID-19 related supply challenge – he recently teamed up with a Mercersburg distillery to turn alcohol for making bourbon and whiskey into hand...
View ArticleWellSpan Health appoints new Senior Vice President and Chief Quality Officer
WellSpan Health has named Michael Seim, M.D. as senior vice president and chief quality officer for the health system.Seim comes to WellSpan from Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital, the flagship hospital...
View ArticleRetired nurse returns to WellSpan Philhaven to help during COVID-19 outbreak
Carolyn Haskell kept hearing about the need for medical professionals in response to the coronavirus outbreak. As a 23-year veteran military nurse and former infection control specialist, the...
View ArticleBrewery Products delivers ‘energy to the front lines’ of WellSpan locations...
It might seem like an unlikely community partnership – a beer wholesaler and a healthcare provider – but when WellSpan’s care teams needed a boost of energy, Brewery Products answered the call.When...
View ArticleWellSpan Cardiac ICU nurse relies on unit’s ‘sense of family’ to get through...
There’s nothing that compares to the daily workflow changes Mandy Lewis has had to navigate on the Cardiac ICU unit at WellSpan’s York Hospital. Her brain runs through a mental checklist of...
View ArticleRespiratory therapist adapts ‘human touch’ healing at WellSpan Gettysburg...
When patients are scared or loved ones are worried, Patti Ford never hesitates to comfort someone with a hug. That's what "huggers" like her do, she says. But when treating COVID-19 patients, the...
View ArticleWellSpan York Hospital recognized for complex cardiac care program
WellSpan York Hospital announces today that it has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® certification for its ventricular assist device (VAD) program. This is the third time since 2013...
View ArticleWellSpan Internal Medicine and U.S. Army Reserves physician shares experience...
March 29 is a date Dr. Ryan DeCort will remember for a long time."I was in the office working and I got a phone call from my unit saying I had 24 hours to mobilize to our Army Reserve center in Fort...
View ArticleTranscript: WellSpan Internal Medicine and U.S. Army Reserve physician shares...
Ryan DeCort, D.O., WellSpan Internal Medicine and U.S. Army Reserve physician is among the first in the country to be deployed to New York City where he is working at an Army field hospital at Javits...
View ArticleWellSpan Health uses convalescent plasma treatment for some COVID-19 patients
The most critically ill COVID-19 patients at WellSpan Health hospitals may qualify for an investigational treatment using convalescent plasma. As part of the Food and Drug Administration’s expanded...
View ArticleWellSpan Health, Mennonite Disaster Services partner to meet the 100 Million...
WellSpan Health and Mennonite Disaster Services (MDS) today announced they are joining forces to meet the 100 Million Mask Challenge, an initiative launched by the American Hospital Association to help...
View ArticleWellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital Cheers Release of COVID-19 Patient
Julian Montanez felt “like I didn’t have any life left.”The 74-year-old Lebanon man had been diagnosed with COVID-19. He was admitted to WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital on March 24. Two days later, he...
View ArticleWellSpan volunteer donates portion of his family’s federal stimulus check to...
Don Reigart isn’t one to sit idle. In January 2011, just three months after retiring, he began volunteering at WellSpan York Hospital. “I didn’t need a job for the money, but I needed something to do,”...
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