Penn State Health opened the new $375 million hospital in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, about an hour outside of Philadelphia. For Penn State Health, it’s the system’s second new hospital in a year, Healthcare Executive reports. Penn State Health opened a hospital just outside of Harrisburg, the state capital, in October 2021.
Inside the new 132-bed hospital a few miles outside the city of Lancaster, Joseph Frank, Penn State Health East Region hospital president, lauded “the enormously capable staff we assembled here.”
Health system executives around the country have talked about the difficulties they have had finding and keeping workers. Frank admitted to having some anxiety a year ago about hiring enough staff for a new hospital. Read more.
