Penn Medicine Lancaster General Hospital has gained recognition as a top-tier Level 1 center for trauma care, the first in Lancaster County and one of only 18 across Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation recently accredited the countyâs largest hospital as a Level 1 trauma center. Lancaster General Hospital, which last year treated more than 2,800 trauma patients, had been a Level 2 center since 1986.
As a Level 2 trauma center, Lancaster General already had a trauma surgeon and operating room teams in the hospital around the clock to offer immediate, expert care for patients injured in falls, crashes, assaults and shootings. There are four levels of trauma center accreditation.
Faced with a December 8, 2020, Memorandum and Order by Eastern District Judge Pappert (
link) denying the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) request to enjoin the proposed Jefferson-Einstein merger, and the resulting right of the parties to complete the merger after 11:59pm on December 15, 2020 pursuant to the terms of a February 2020 temporary restraining order, the following procedural steps were taken:
On December 9, 2020, the FTC filed an Emergency Motion for Injunction Pending Appeal (
link) in the District Court.
On December 11, 2020, the FTC made a similar filing in the Third Circuit.
On December 11, 2020, Jefferson filed its opposition to the District Court Emergency Motion (see below).
Lebanon hospital becomes first in midstate to get COVID-19 vaccine, others expect delivery this week
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
Posted Dec 15, 2020
Steve Thomas,, regional pharmacies director for WellSpan Health, accepts the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to hit south central Pa. Tuesday, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Lebanon.Photo provided by WellSpan Health
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Beating the snow, WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital in Lebanon became the first hospital in the south central Pennsylvania to receive doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday.
The big delivery in small, cold-locking containers arrived about 10:30 a.m., and it will be stored in the hospital pharmacy until vaccinations of selected staff begins later this week.
First shots fired in COVID-19 war, but we still face a long winter of masking and social distancing
Updated Dec 14, 2020;
Posted Dec 14, 2020
Charmaine Pykosh, a 67-year-old acute care nurse in the surgical/intensive care unit at UPMC Presbyterian, was the first recipient of the COVID-19 vaccine in Pennsylvania.UPMC
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Science started punching back against COVID-19 in Pennsylvania Monday as a medical needle was plunged into the left arm of Charmaine Pykosh, a 67-year-old acute care nurse practitioner in the UPMC hospital system in Pittsburgh.
Pykosh and hundreds of other UPMC employees began taking the first of a course of two vaccine shots shortly after 11 a.m. in an auditorium room at UPMC’s Children’s Hospital, where in a bright spot in an at-times bleak year fellow staffers couldn’t help but break into applause as Pykosh waved a thumbs-up to the cameras.
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The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has failed – at least for now – in its efforts to derail a merger between Thomas Jefferson University Health System and Albert Einstein Health System, two Philadelphia-area health systems. In a decision announced on December 8, Judge Pappert, District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, ruled that the FTC, which was joined in the action by the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General (“PA AG”), had failed to demonstrate that the merger should be enjoined. In reaching this decision, the Court held that the FTC had failed to show that there would be an insufficient number of alternative providers of hospital services in the region to limit the ability of the merged entity to increase prices post-merger. Accordingly, absent an appeal by the FTC and/or the PA AG to the Third Circuit, and a successful request for a stay of the lower Court’s ruling, the merging pa