HAP Blog

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.

As we worked through the COVID-19 pandemic, most facilities were short on needed supplies to combat the growing threat. As a result, universally, different standards of care were enacted to combat the problem. However, when supply shortages affect only a portion of health care facilities, we don’t routinely see those sweeping changes to standards of care that assist with our daily operations.

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.

A key discussion about reclassifying marijuana from a Schedule I drug is likely to take place later this year.

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) continues to roll out its proposed reform and update to the nation’s organ transplant system.