Our emergency medicine physicians and staff are active in the communities we serve across the region.  Doctors James Leaming and Thomas Terndrup direct the Health Care Facilities Partnership of South central PA—a regional collaboration of all 17 acute care regional hospitals. Funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, the collaboration includes emergency management agencies and three primary care clinics to create a model for communities across the United States to begin addressing their own public health emergency preparedness needs. We also staff the Beaver Stadium first aid stations during Pennsylvania State University home football games—weekends where State College becomes Pennsylvania’s third largest “city.”

Every day, our Life Lion Critical Care and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) teams bring life-saving skills into our communities. The Penn State Hershey Life Lion Critical Care team of flight nurses, paramedics, and pilots offers lectures and presentations on health care and safety topics, participates in community events such as National Night Out and Prom Promise, and provides tours of the Life Lion hangar for students, Scouts, and more to learn more about the aircraft. Our crew also offers landing zone safety presentations for fire departments and EMS organizations, as well as continuing education programs for members of the EMS community.   More....