Mar 15, 2021
BELLEFONTE The 73rd annual Mount Nittany Medical Center Charity Ball raised more than $137,000, helping to advance the critical work of Mount Nittany Health’s Children’s Advocacy Center.
This year, while it was not possible to physically gather, Mount Nittany Health Foundation, in conjunction with the Charity Ball committee co-chaired by Gina Woskob and Tracie Doucette invited community members to join them in making a difference in the lives of area children through gifts to the Center.
Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center, Meredith Thompson, shared, “On behalf of the children and families for which Mount Nittany Health Children’s Advocacy Center provides services, thank you! Thank you to the sponsors, donors and Charity Ball committee for envisioning the Charity Ball in a way that, without gathering, supported the Center’s vital work. Your donations will go right to work to care for and protect our smallest, most vulnerable commun
Despite pandemic, these new businesses, medical centers and homes are opening in central Pa.
Updated Feb 25, 2021;
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The COVID-19 pandemic might have slowed down business openings and construction but it certainly hasn’t stopped them.
A number of housing developments are planned in Harrisburg, Susquehanna Township, Hampden Township, East Pennsboro Township and throughout the midstate.
And stores including REI Co-op, PaulB Mechanicsburg, Five Below and TJ Maxx are all opening new locations in central Pennsylvania this year.
And three companies have plans to open multiple locations in the region: Shiny Shell CarWash, Xfinity and Pet Supplies Plus.
Other new locations include a childcare center, a hospital, newly built medical offices, a doggie daycare, restaurants, hotels, an indoor trampoline park and more.
Airline pilot shares story of 2-month battle with COVID-19
49-year-old Chris Stickel had no underlining conditions but was hospitalized after contracting COVID-19.
COWETA COUNTY, Ga. - Chris Sickel is going home after a two-month battle with COVID-19. He is a 49-year-old Southwest Airlines pilot and has no underlying condition. His family shared his story with FOX 5 because Chris was healthy and yet suffered devastating effects. At Newnan Piedmont Hospital they told me that I was the youngest person they had who was so sick, Sickel said.
Family video taken Friday morning showed Chris ringing a bell at Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital in Newnan where he had spent the last ten days recovering. A bell that tolled that Chris, although not recovered fully, was well enough to go home.
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If you re over 65 and your finger hurts from dialing the phone again and again for a COVID-19 vaccine appointment you still don t have, rest assured you have plenty of company.
As of about 6 p.m. Tuesday, the Georgia Department of Public Health reported that 997,950 doses of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines had been shipped to Georgia and 484,775 doses had been administered in the state. In a state of over 10 million residents, more than 1.5 million of whom qualify for the vaccine so far, that s left a lot of frustration.
More than a dozen health care providers and pharmacies have received shipments of the vaccines in Chatham County. Some ordered only enough for their own employees and are not offering them to the public. Some, like Kroger, received only a small portion of their request so far 300 doses in the case of Kroger s, according to the state web site and have already distributed them to patients.