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Geisinger was named after iron magnate George Geisinger by his widow, Abigail Geisinger. The George F. Geisinger Memorial Hospital was founded in Danville in 1915 and later became Geisinger Medical Center. [7] Geisinger Health Plan, a subsidiary health management organization (HMO), was started in 1985. [citation needed]
Geisinger Medical Center is an adult level I trauma center. Adjoined is the Janet Weis Children's Hospital (JWCH), a pediatric level II trauma center. [3] Geisinger Life Flight, a helicopter medevac system, is based at GMC. GMC's position in a small town gives Danville one of the highest concentrations of hospital workers in the United States.
The hospital offers 40 pediatric specialty services. The hospital received Magnet Recognition status by the American Nurses Credentialing Center 2009. The hematology, oncology and bone marrow transplant program received the American Society of Clinical Oncology Award for the program's work to improve cancer care through clinical research, one of eight hospitals in the U.S. to receive this ...
In Centre County, the 52-acre Geisinger Healthplex State College offers more than 50 services and specialties, Geisinger Scenery Park has more than three dozen physicians and specialists, and ...
Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine (GCSOM) is a private medical school associated with the Geisinger Health System in northeastern and north central Pennsylvania.GCSOM offers a community-based model of medical education with six regional campuses: North (Scranton, PA), South (Wilkes-Barre, PA), Central (Danville, PA), West (Lewistown, PA), Atlanticare (Atlantic City, NJ), and Guthrie ...
The hospital was founded in 1963 and is sponsored by the Sisters of Christian Charity. [3]In 2003, the hospital opened the Ortenzio Heart Center, a four-story, 140,000-square-foot (13,000 m 2) facility located adjacent to the hospital specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of heart problems.
Karin Marie Muraszko is an American pediatric neurosurgeon. [1] As of 2012, she was the Julian T. Hoff Professor and chair of the department of neurosurgery at the University of Michigan. [1] She is the first woman to head a neurosurgery department at any medical school in the US. [2] She specializes in brain and spinal cord abnormalities. [3]
The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21 throughout the region. [3] [4] The hospital features an ACS verified level I pediatric trauma center, the only one in the District of Columbia. [5]