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Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, located in Hershey, Pa., is a 550-bed tertiary-care center and the only medical facility in Pennsylvania to be accredited as both an adult and a pediatric Level 1 trauma center.
This location is considered home base for the Psychiatry Residency, and is where the program’s administrative offices are located.
PGY-1 residents serve their neurology and emergency medicine rotations at this location, as well as one month of consult/liaison. PGY-2 residents serve their remaining consult/liaison rotations and emergency psychiatry rotations at this location. Additionally, all residents join together here for weekly didactics.
Holy Spirit Medical Center
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical Center has been serving the greater Harrisburg region with high-quality, ethically guided and patient-focused healthcare services since 1963. This 307-bed community hospital provides outpatient and inpatient diagnostic, medical and surgical services.
Nationally accredited for its centers of excellence in cardiac care, atrial fibrillation, heart attack (STEMI), heart failure, stroke, diabetes and knee and hip replacement, Holy Spirit Medical Center is also certified as an Advanced Primary Stroke Center by The Joint Commission, in conjunction with the American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association.
Its Level II Trauma Center provides around-the-clock complex critical care for people with life-threatening injuries.
UPMC Pinnacle Harrisburg
The internal medicine rotation occurs at UPMC Pinnacle Harrisburg in Harrisburg, Pa. It offers a strong teaching component with its own residency and fellowship programs.
Major service lines include neuroscience (including specialty clinics for epilepsy, balance and vestibular conditions); heart and vascular; transplant; women and children’s services (including high-risk maternal fetal and advanced NICU); rehabilitation, cancer and behavioral health (via Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute.) It is also a Magnet Hospital for Nursing.
Residents rotate through UPMC Pinnacle Harrisburg for inpatient and outpatient internal medicine experience.
Lebanon VA Medical Center
Located in Lebanon, Pa., about a 30-minute drive from Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, the Lebanon VA Medical Center receives high ratings among VA hospitals nationally for customer service. Here, a patient-centered approach is stressed. Importance is given to support of the resident staff educationally and administratively.
Residents rotate through the Lebanon VA Medical Center for adult inpatient, geriatric and addictions experience.
Northeast Drive Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic
The Northeast Drive Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic in Hershey is a 10-minute drive from Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
Services provided at the clinic include outpatient adult, child and adolescent psychiatric services, geriatrics, partial hospitalization, family and couples therapy and mood disorders.
Residents rotate through the clinic in their second year of training for partial hospitalization services, and in their third and fourth years of training for adult outpatient, geriatrics, family and couples therapy and mood disorders services.
Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute
Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute is the only university-affiliated inpatient psychiatric facility in central Pennsylvania. Its mission is to provide comprehensive psychiatric services to the people of central Pennsylvania.
The facility is a multi-story teaching hospital which includes three units for adult and geriatric inpatient care encompassing more than 60 adult beds, a 16-bed adolescent unit and a nine-bed children’s unit. The facility is also equipped with an electroconvulsive therapy suite and houses an admissions office, outpatient opioid treatment program, conference rooms and general outpatient services.
Residents rotate through Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute for adult inpatient, child inpatient and outpatient, electroconvulsive therapy and on-call experiences.