Apr 10, 2021
Williamsport Family Medical Center recently was designated a Center of Excellence by the state Department of Human Services, announced the center’s parent company, Pinnacle Treatment Centers.
Located at 2062 Lycoming Creek Road, Suite 8, Williamsport Family Medical Center is one of Pinnacle’s 13 opioid addiction treatment centers in the state. Pinnacle’s other 12 programs also are COEs.
Three of Pinnacle’s centers in Pennsylvania–Alliance Medical Services of Johnstown (Cambria County), Miners Medical (Luzerne County) and Mt. Pocono Medical (Monroe County) are part of the initial 45 COEs chosen by Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration in response to the rapidly escalating opioid overdose death epidemic. But in July 2020, it was announced that additional Medicaid providers could apply for this designation.
How Lehigh Valley Hospital–Pocono met the pandemic on the frontlines
William K. Cors, MD, MMM, FAAPL
Chief Medical Officer, Lehigh Valley Hospital–Pocono
It is my honor to serve as the Chief Medical Officer for Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH)–Pocono for the past four years, and for six years before that in a similar position for the then Pocono Medical Center. Despite decades of experience in the clinical practice of medicine, as well as in hospital leadership positions, nothing fully prepared my colleagues and me for the COVID-19 pandemic that has consumed the past year.
In February and March 2020, we began to see an influx of severely ill patients with a respiratory disease often requiring specialized care in the critical care unit. We quickly assembled clinical teams to plan for the triage and care of the many patients arriving in the emergency room requiring admission. This was unlike anything we had ever experienced, and, at first, it was