Healthcare

Since the end of World War II, the stately brick buildings of the Lebanon VA Medical Center in South Lebanon Township have been serving veterans in Lebanon County and throughout central Pennsylvania. The hospital provides acute medical, surgical, and behavioral health-care services. Inpatient hospice care is provided in more than 15 beds and also in community living centers. A full range of home care and community services are available to the region’s veterans, including home-based primary care, homemaker home health care, community residential care, adult day health care and homeless veteran care.

Lancaster General Health opened the $24 million North Cornwall Health Center in November 2015. The center is home to three separate entities that work together to deliver health care to Lebanon County residents: the North Pointe Surgery Center, Orthopedic Associates of Lancaster and Lancaster General Health. Located at 1701 Cornwall Road, just south of the city of Lebanon, the center created about 150 jobs for local residents. The center offers primary care (LG Health Physicians Family Medicine Quentin), specialty care, lab services and radiology services. Urgent care with integrated orthopedic care available from Orthopedic Associates of Lancaster, heart care from The Heart Group of Lancaster General Health, 3D mammography, lab testing, physical therapy, home sleep studies, imaging services, cardiac testing, and diabetes specialty care. This location also includes May-Grant Obstetrics & Gynecology.

WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital in Lebanon has served the community for more than 125 years. The hospital remains an important community resource, providing residents with advanced levels of cancer care, heart and vascular medicine, maternity services and wound care that rival programs found in major metropolitan areas, like Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

WellSpan Health, in conjunction with a large donation from the Francis J. Dixon Foundation, has established a health and wellness center. The new center is located in a portion of what

was formerly known as the WellSpan Hyman S. Caplan Pavilion, at Fourth and Willow streets. In honor of the significant donation by the Dixon Foundation, the building has been renamed the WellSpan Dixon Foundation Health Center. The health and wellness center offers primary care, behavioral health services and social services.

In addition to the health and wellness center, the WellSpan Dixon Foundation Health Center building will continue to house other health care services, including WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital’s rehabilitation and transitional care units, its speech and audiology services and its diabetes education program. The building also houses the WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital Family Residency’s Family Practice program and the offices of WellSpan Family Medicine – North Fourth Street. WellSpan Health, based in York, now features six hospitals in southcentral Pennsylvania, more than 160 medical offices and approximately 15,000 employees.

WellSpan Philhaven’s 55 programs and 1,100 staff members, through the affiliation with WellSpan, are committed to developing a regional behavioral-health system with diverse levels of care, support for all patients, innovative practices and strong outcomes. Focus is on the development of local education and training programs to attract future behavioral health providers to the region.

Philhaven, begun in 1952 by the Lancaster Mennonite Conference, has 22 facilities in Lebanon, Lancaster, Dauphin and York counties. The main hospital is located off Butler Road in a beautiful, rural setting on the north side of Mt. Gretna.

UPMC, based in Harrisburg, opened its first Lebanon County facility in July 2016, the Lebanon Valley Advanced Care Center. The 80,000-square-foot facility is located at 1251 E. Main St. in Annville. The center includes the physicians and staff of Annville Family Medicine, which merged with UPMC and closed its former Weaber Street location.

The center offers primary and specialty care by Annville Family Medicine, UPMC Endocrinology Associates, the UPMC CardioVascular Institute, and the Neurosurgery and Neurosciences Institute.

UPMC Express, now in its third year, is a walk-in service for patients, who don’t need an appointment and don’t need to be members of the Pinnacle system.

The Volunteers in Medicine clinic on South Eighth Street in Lebanon has been offering primary care to people who are uninsured or underinsured, since 2008. Also, Lebanon Family Health Services (LFHS) has been offering invaluable care to the community from its downtown location at 615 Cumberland St. LFHS provides reproductive health, nutrition and education services to families – with an emphasis on women, infants and children. Many programs are free or offered at low cost.