The latest Leapfrog hospital safety grades for 47 Philadelphia-area hospitals awarded top marks an A to 15 area hospitals, including four to Jefferson Health and three each to Main Line Health and the University of Pennsylvania Health System. The Leapfrog Group, founded in 2000 by major national employers, also awarded a C to Lankenau Medical Center. And it gave three D’s to Brandywine, .
Jim Brexler witnessed the devastating effects of COVID-19 months months before most other Pennsylvania hospital leaders did.
His health system, Doylestown Health, is located about 80 miles southwest of New York City, where the pandemic s first surge was centered one year ago. We are just 15 miles from the Delaware River and we were watching everything in New York City and New Jersey, said Brexler, Doylestown Health s CEO. In January 2020, we started prepping and getting things ready.
Doylestown Health and other hospitals in southeastern Pennsylvania have suffered two surges of COVID-19 patients during the pandemic. The initial wave was in late March and April, and the other occurred between Thanksgiving and Christmas, when most Pennsylvania hospitals were affected.
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BUCKS COUNTY State Sen. Steve Santarsiero (D-10) and five health officials will discuss the rollout of the state s COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan during a town hall meeting.
The telephone town hall will take place at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 28. Residents can sign up for the town hall here. For those who can t attend, a recording will be made available here on Friday.
During the town hall, officials will provide local updates on when, how and where residents of the 10th Senate District, which includes a large portion of Bucks County, can get vaccinated.
Subscribe I am hearing from my constituents daily with questions about how they can get the COVID-19 vaccine, and when they will be eligible under state guidelines, Sen. Santarsiero said in a news release. I hope this town hall offers residents of my district an opportunity to get up to speed on the latest news about the vaccination effort, and have their questions answered.
UpdatedThu, Dec 24, 2020 at 1:18 pm ET
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Doylestown Hospital will receive $1 million in state grant funding for a new Women s Diagnostic Center. (Google Maps)
BUCKS COUNTY, PA Several big-ticket projects in Bucks County municipalities have been awarded state grant funding from Pennsylvania.
The $7.5 million in funding comes from the state s Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP), which supports economic, cultural, civic, recreational and historical improvement projects in the commonwealth.
Doylestown Hospital will receive $1 million for a new Women s Diagnostic Center, which will specialize in breast imaging and other medical imaging services. The project will relocate and expand its current diagnostic facility.
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