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Welcome to Penn State Hershey Family and Community Medicine

Welcome to the Web Site of the Department of Family and Community Medicine of the Penn State College of Medicine. We are located in beautiful  Hershey, Pennsylvania. You may be aware of the other fine product made in our community, the Hershey Bar. The Milton S. Hershey trust, in fact, made the initial donation to Penn State University that made it possible for all the students.

Our department has a long and proud history in Family Medicine education. In fact, we were the first department of Family Medicine in an academic health center in the United States!  More...

"Everyone was terrific.  I never felt I was going through it by myself.  My wife knew all the risks from the beginning.  But she's been right there the whole time.  She has sacrificed so much, so has my family and my wife's family.  My doctors at the Medical Center were absolutely supportive and understanding.  People talk about me having courage, but the real courage comes from the people around me."

Todd Hitz
Bone Marrow Transplant Recipient and Cancer Survivor


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Construction began in 2007 on a 175,000 square foot, four-story building to provide a new home for cancer-related clinical and research operations, and creating a new main hospital entrance.

The new facility will bring together leading-edge cancer treatment with ongoing cancer research in one location and help position Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute to earn a National Cancer Institute designation—the hallmark accreditation for academic cancer centers. The cancer center should be operational by early 2009.