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Dr. Michael Kupferman

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Mission Our mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people of Pennsylvania, and beyond. That means providing our patients with excellent, compassionate, culturally responsive and equitable care. As the region’s only locally based academic medical center, we educate and train health care professionals and advance medical innovation through research and discovery.

Couple this with our goal to be to be Pennsylvania’s most trusted health care organization, and we know our employees have the chance to gain both personal and professional satisfaction by becoming part of our fast-growing health care system.

We continually cultivate a professionally fulfilling environment for our caregivers, educators, innovators, researchers and staff, all while progressing the science of medicine and disseminating knowledge to the world—as we have done for more than a half-century.
Description Penn State Health is an integrated academic health system serving patients and communities across 15 counties in central Pennsylvania. It employs more than 20,900 people systemwide.

The system includes Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Penn State Health Children’s Hospital and Penn State Cancer Institute based in Hershey, Pa.; Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center in Enola, Pa.; Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical Center in Camp Hill, Pa.; Penn State Health Lancaster Medical Center in Lancaster, Pa.; Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center in Reading, Pa.; Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute, a specialty provider of inpatient and outpatient behavioral health services, in Harrisburg, Pa.; and 2,417 physicians and direct care providers at 186 outpatient practices. Additionally, the system jointly operates various healthcare providers, including Penn State Health Rehabilitation Hospital, Hershey Outpatient Surgery Center and Hershey Endoscopy Center.

In 2017, Penn State Health partnered with Highmark Health to facilitate creation of a value-based, community care network in the region.

Penn State Health shares an integrated strategic plan and operations with Penn State College of Medicine, the University’s medical school. With campuses in State College and Hershey, Pa., the College of Medicine boasts a portfolio of more than $159 million in funded research and more than 1,700 students and trainees in medicine, nursing, other health professions and biomedical research.
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