THE ISSUE
As LNP | LancasterOnlineâs Nicole C. Brambila reported last week, âLancaster Countyâs two Republican commissioners waded into personnel issues outside their purview during Wednesdayâs public meeting, taking Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health to task for its new employee COVID-19 vaccine policy. Hospital employees and clinical staff must be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Sept. 1, and starting July 1 new hires will be required to provide verification of or complete vaccination two weeks prior to their start date. Employees can seek an exemption for religious or medical reasons in much the same way they currently do for the influenza vaccine, which is already required.â LG Health CEO John Herman notified employees of the COVID-19 vaccination requirement on May 19.
Nearly three months after Manheim Township commissioners asked other local leaders to join them in calling for creation of a county health department, boards in only a handful of the
Lancaster County’s two Republican commissioners waded into personnel issues outside their purview during Wednesday’s public meeting, taking Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health to task for its new employee COVID-19 vaccine
Lancaster County leaders say they are intent on replacing the vendor they hired last year to print and send thousands of mail-in ballots to voters a move prompted by several errors the printer made that wound up requiring a time-consuming hand count of 12,000 primary election ballots that began Friday and stretched into Monday.
County Commissioner Ray DâAgostino said the county will reopen the mail balloting contract for bid in the next few weeks, and the county is working with its solicitor on how it can hold the current vendor accountable for its errors.Â
But why was the county paying an out-of-state company to print thousands of ballots? And what background did that company have in the complex business of producing mail-in voting materials?
When visiting Lancasterâs mass vaccination site in March, Gov. Tom Wolf praised the public-private collaboration, saying it was a âreally good example of what local folks can doâ to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
With the capacity to administer up to 6,000 doses a day â at a time when the public was clamoring for limited vaccine â the site had a wait list of 50,000 in short order.
What it didnât have was a toll-free phone number for patients to call.
And the mass vaccination site â located at the former Bon-Ton department store in Park City Center â still doesnât have a toll-free phone number.