Lancaster County mass vaccination site administers 200,000th COVID-19 vaccine lancasteronline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lancasteronline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Health care providers reach out to Amish, Plain communities to encourage vaccination
WGAL News 8 coronavirus coverage Share Updated: 7:26 AM EDT May 16, 2021
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Show Transcript TO THIS COMMUNITY. SUSAN: AMISH AND PLAIN PEOPLE NUMBER ABOUT 25,000 IN LANCASTER COUNTY. HEALTH PROVIDERS ARE HOPING MANY OF THEM WILL STEP UP AND GET THE COVID-19 VACCINE, BUT IT COULD BE A CHALLENGE. WE FOUND IN GENERAL THE PLA COMMUNITIES ARE LESS LIKELY, A LITTLE BIT MORE HESITANT TO THINK ABOUT PREVENTION, LESS LIKELY TO GET ANY TYPE OF VACCINE. SUSAN: LGH IS NOW HOLDING VACCINATION CLINICS AT THE FULTON FIRE COMPANY IN PEACH BOTTOM AND AT A SITE IN PARADISE, AREAS WITH LARGE AMISH POPULATIONS. THAT WASN’T LOST ON JANE KEY GOT HER SHOT HERE. SHE I THOUGHT THAT WAS WHY THEY PUT IT IN THE OUTSKIRTS. THERE ARE A LOT OF AMISH AROUND HERE. SUSAN: JASON HASH GOT HIS SHOT HERE AND HO
East Drumore supervisors neutral on establishing county health department lancasteronline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lancasteronline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
National Hospital Day was first observed in 1921, as the world struggled to recover from the historic Spanish influenza pandemic. The annual celebration honoring America’s hospitals and health care workers
Hospital birth information suggests that didnât happen in Lancaster County.
The countyâs three hospital systems â Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, UPMC Lititz and WellSpan Health â recorded 6,145 births in 2020. Thatâs slightly more than the 6,086 births in 2019, a roughly 1% increase, but less than the 6,259 in 2018.
Hospital births account for the majority of babies born in Lancaster County but not all.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health has not yet released 2020 data.
LNP | LancasterOnline was able to examine births from the countyâs health systems going back only to 2018, the year after UPMC acquired the Heart of Lancaster Regional Medical Center.