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NEW YORK, May 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Infor, the industry cloud company, today announced that Penn Highlands Healthcare (PHH), a six-hospital integrated health system in northwestern Pennsylvania, has selected Infor CloudSuite Healthcare and Infor Cloverleaf Cloud to move forward its future vision. Working alongside key Infor implementation partner Bails, the move to a more modern cloud architecture solution will provide PHH with a clinically-connected healthcare operations platform on which to build its patient-centered network.
Fatal Elk Co. Rollover 12:12 am
According to state police in Elk County, two men were killed in an early morning rollover crash in Ridgway Township.
Troopers say the crash occurred just after 12:30 a.m. along Bingham Road, near its intersection with Scenic Drive.
Investigators say the driver of a pickup truck was traveling at a high rate of speed and failed to negotiate a curve.
The vehicle went over an embankment, rolled onto the driver side and slid into a tree, the crash report states.
Both the driver, identified as 36-year-old Tony Eckert, of Saint Marys, and the front seat passenger, identified as 33-year-old Kenneth Gasbarre of Ridgway, were pronounced dead at the scene.
DuBOIS â Penn Highlands Healthcare officials, at this weekâs media teleconference, discussed the most recent COVID-19 restrictions implemented by Gov. Tom Wolf last week and details about the Pfizer vaccine which arrived at PHH DuBois and PHH Elk Thursday.
When asked about the additional restrictions implemented in Pennsylvania, Dr. Shaun Sheehan, PHH medical director and COVID-19 task force leader, said, âI think, unfortunately, the public, including myself and anybody else out there, we tend to be our own worst enemies.â
âIf we were able to have more compliance with masking and not gathering and spreading the virus earlier on, some of these would not have been necessary to implement,â said Sheehan. âI understand that some of these rules feel draconian, they certainly affect people in terrible economic ways, but I believe this is the last tool that the government has to try and mitigate further spread of this virus.â
DuBOIS â Penn Highlands Healthcare will receive its first allotment of the COVID-19 vaccine Thursday, according to PHH Chief Operating Officer Mark Norman.
âWeâre pleased to come to you with good news this week. We are turning a significant corner in combating the pandemic,â Norman said during Wednesdayâs media teleconference.
Norman noted that Thursdayâs rollout of the vaccine is the latest update PHH has received from Pfizer and the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
âOf course, we are very encouraged to have a vaccine on its way to us, but it remains critical for our communities to understand our area is not through the worst of this pandemic,â said Norman. âItâs also important to note there is a period of a few weeks from the moment the first shot is administered until an individual is considered to benefit from maximum protection of the vaccine. Like any vaccine, the COVID-19 vaccine does not guarantee an individual will not b