So you want to work for the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center? Here are some interesting facts from 2008 that speak volumes:

Fact: 140 Penn State Hershey Medical Center physicians have been chosen for inclusion in the Best Doctors in America 2007-2008.

Fact: Penn State Hershey Medical Center has earned significant distinctions through The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)

Fact: Penn State Hershey Medical Center has recently earned the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) status declaring it a Magnet^TM hospital – one of only 256 in the world.

Fact: Penn State Hershey Medical Center boasts 3,448,562 square feet of buildings and 545 acres of grounds.

Fact: Penn State Hershey Medical Center has over 7,000 employees.

Fact: More than $98 million in research funding support has been received.

Fact: 150 – the number of patients cared for in our Gamma Knife Center.

Fact: $4.2 million awarded by the PA Dept of Health to study colorectal cancer in Northeastern PA.

Fact: 175,000 square foot, four story building to provide a new home for the cancer-related clinical and research center.

Fact: 607 cancer patients were treated through funding from The Four Diamonds Fund

Fact: Hershey Center for Applied Research (HCAR) opened – a collaboration to foster a culture of discovery.

Fact: We have 9 multidisciplinary, cancer-related disease teams.

Fact: 157,957 miles flown by our Life Lion transport team.

Fact: 12,309 pediatric heart patients were treated.

Fact: 23,000 surgeries were performed..

Fact: 38 members of our linen services laundered 151,000 surgical gowns. 3,800 bed sheets were washed per day and 4.2 million pounds of linen per year were washed, dried, folded and delivered.

Fact: 700 children were admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit,

Fact: 7,500,000 patient meals were cooked, prepped, plated and served.

Fact: Our switchboard employees responded to 1.9 million calls that are made to Hershey Medical Center’s switchboard each year – 24 hours/day, 7 days/week, 365 days / year.

Fact: 650- The average number of patients seen in one MONTH at our Fishburn Road Family and Community Medicine Clinic.

Fact: 1.58 million plus customers served by our food service employees, along with more than 424,000 patient meals.

Fact: 118 babies transported in the Pediatric Mobile Intensive Care Unit.

Fact: 1600+ babies delivered

When you become an employee of the Hershey Medical Center we hope to soon become your extended family. Just like a family we all work together and support one another; we celebrate our work and personal success together, we laugh and cry together and we help each other when one of our teammates is faced with a personal challenge.

The environment here is like no other academic medical center’s . At Penn State Hershey your ideas and opinions are valued. Harold L. Paz, M.D., Senior Vice President for Health Affairs, Dean and Chief Executive Officer and Alan Brechbill, Executive Director lead quarterly employee meetings where you can share your ideas and opinions.

Together we are greater than when we stand alone.  Click here to view our Annual Report.