This year, Penn Medicine Lancaster General Hospital received the Living the Vision Achjievement Award for its Food Farmacy program that focuses on community health and nutrition.

Hospital teams are providing safer care and achieving better patient outcomes than before the pandemic, even as they care for more patients with more severe and complex medical conditions.

The Shapiro administration recently announced the commonwealth’s new initiative to develop a maternal health strategic plan. The plan, announced during an event last month, seeks to address disparities in care and ensure pregnant women have access to the prenatal and postpartum care they need to live healthy lives.