LEWISBURG Evangelical Community Hospital will hold a series of classes throughout March. For the safety of participants, masking is required while inside hospital facilities and during all learning sessions. Physical distancing and frequent handwashing/use of hand sanitizer is encouraged for participants who attend classes. Prepared Childbirth Classes: • Newborn Care:
Sentinel Lifestyles Editor shows his COVID-19 Vaccination Record card.
I woke up the morning of Jan. 29 with a sore left arm sort of like someone punched me the previous day.
This week, my right arm felt it a bit for the same reason.
Because I qualify under the state’s group 1A (I am diabetic), I was able to receive both doses of the COVID-19 vaccination in January and February (I received the Moderna vaccination, which is administered in two shots approximately 28 days apart).
I’m the first in our newsroom maybe the first in the building to get the vaccine, although numerous others in Mifflin and Juniata counties have as well (more than a few have told me and the world via Facebook).
Evangelical Community Hospital was recently officially designated a Keystone 10 hospital in Pennsylvania by the Department of Health. The Family Place, the Hospital’s obstetrics unit, has been working toward this designation for some time, according to a press release. The designation is given when a hospital achieves the 10 key components to successful breastfeeding programs.
Feb. 20—Deliveries delayed by hazardous winter weather and mistakes made with the commonwealth's accounting of first and second doses of a COVID-19 vaccine left Evangelical Community Hospital without any supplies of the Moderna vaccine. The lack of doses for one of only two available vaccine brands, Pfizer-BioNTech being the second, forced Evangelical to cancel 300 appointments this week, .
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WILLIAMSPORT – A trio of registered nurses have brought a prospective class action lawsuit against Geisinger Health and Evangelical Community Hospital, claiming the Pennsylvania hospitals engaged in a secret “no-poach agreement” that suppressed professional mobility and salaries in Central Pennsylvania.
Nichole Leib and Kevin Brokenshire of Pennsylvania and Diane Weigley of Georgia (and formerly of Pennsylvania) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania on Feb. 3 versus Geisinger Health of Danville and Evangelical Community Hospital, of Lewisburg.
“This class action challenges an illegal agreement between two competitors, Geisinger and Evangelical, not to recruit (or “poach”) each other’s physicians, nurses, psychologists, therapists and other health care professional.” the suit says.