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Successful research requires teamwork

8/30/16

Successful research often requires a combination of resources and cooperation that can be challenging to coordinate. Case in point: Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center’s participation in a clinical trial studying the safety of MRI use in patients who are implanted with a specific brand of defibrillator and lead.

Bob Phillips leaves Hershey Medical Center with his family

Palmyra man first in Pa. to go home with total artificial heart

2/5/13

When Bob Phillips left the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center for his Palmyra home this month, he did so without a human heart. The 74-year-old became the first person in Pennsylvania to go home with a total artificial heart and a portable driver to power it.

Follow your heart to First Fridays

1/17/13

The Department of Humanities' next First Friday presentation will be held at noon on Friday, Feb. 1, in the Anesthesia Conference room (C2860) on the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and College of Medicine campus. The Kienle Drama Group will present "Follow Your Heart," a stage reading by Dr. Richard Selzer, followed by an audience discussion with members of the cardiac transplant team. The event is free and open to the public, and no preregistration is required. For more information, call 717-531-8778.

Hands-Only CPR event trains 300 in life-saving skill

3/7/12

More than 300 members of the community attended the inaugural Hands-Only CPR mass training event, sponsored by Penn State Hershey Heart and Vascular Institute, held on Feb. 4 at the Giant Center. Participants of all ages were enthusiastically engaged in learning this life-saving skill, how to use an AED, how to save a choking victim, and how to perform infant CPR.

New hands-only CPR sessions are scheduled in Hershey for March and April.

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New heart and vascular unit open for patients

8/17/11

The new Heart and Vascular Progressive Care Unit at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center is open to patients. An open house and ribbon cutting were held on Friday, Aug. 5, and patients were moved into the unit on Monday, Aug. 8.

Echocardiography lab receives reaccreditation

4/20/11

The Penn State Hershey adult echocardiography lab was recently awarded reaccreditation status by the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Echocardiography Laboratories (ICAEL) for adult transthoracic, adult transesophageal and adult stress studies. The cardiac structure and flow information provided by these studies is useful in the detection and management of nearly every cardiac disease -- from congenital and valvular heart disease to heart attacks and hypertension.