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A visiting centre at a popular park is still shut after eighteen months of closure – and has been hit by vandalism as it awaits emergency…

At least two local hospital systems — UPMC and WellSpan Health — have created in-house traveling nurse programs to retain staff and reduce the costs associated with hiring outside agencies.

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Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health ended contact tracing for COVID-19 in June, the hospital’s chief clinical officer revealed during a virtual Lancaster Chamber on Wednesday.

As in many parts of the nation, the pace of new COVID-19 cases has recently ticked upward in Lancaster County, though it remains far below the levels seen in earlier stages of the coronavirus pandemic. Through Monday, the county logged a seven-day average of 14 new cases per day, up from a record low of only three to four new cases per day from July 7 to 12, according to daily data posted on the state Department of Health’s COVID-19 Dashboard. On Saturday, the department reported 20 new ca...

THE ISSUE The Lancaster County Community Vaccination Center may close earlier than its previously announced closing date, LNP | LancasterOnline’s Carter Walker reported last week, though there doesn’t seem to be any clarity on when exactly it will close. “When plans for the community vaccination center at Park City Center were being finalized in February, Dr. Michael Ripchinski, the chief clinical officer for Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, said the plan was to run the fa...

At approximately 9 a.m. Sunday, the Lancaster County Community Vaccination Center hit a new milestone in the fight to defeat COVID-19: 100,000 vaccines in arms. The moment was marked with a lei around the neck of Keith Branch at the site of the former Bon-Ton store at Park City Center and an announcement over the public address system. “I was just looking for royalty checks or a new car or something,” the 56-year-old Lancaster County resident said tongue-in-cheek. Lancaster County Com...

THE ISSUE In the Sunday LNP | LancasterOnline “Watchdog” column, reporter Carter Walker wrote about a Lancaster County constable’s private business, started at the beginning of the pandemic, which “has won most, if not all, of the lucrative no-bid contracts to provide security to facilities related to COVID-19, paid for with public funds.” Lancaster County’s 55 constables — elected officials who often serve low-level warrants and transport prisoners for the di...

BLAINE SHAHAN | Staff Photographer Tables have been set up to check in at the mass vaccination site inside the former Bon Ton store at Park City Monday, March 1, 2021. These tables are south side of the former department store near the entrance that faces Harrisburg Pike. BLAINE SHAHAN | Staff Photographer The mass vaccination clinic will undertake a ‘pilot week’ The vaccination center will have a “pilot week” next week, according to Dr. Michael Ripchinski, chief clinical of...

As Lancaster County gears up to launch a COVID-19 mass vaccination site next week and anticipates an increased number of vaccines in the coming weeks under a strengthened state allocation