The facility will focus primarily on outpatient treatment, such as minimally invasive surgeries and endoscopies, but will also offer screening, imaging and diagnosis services.Īlso located within the 82,000-square-foot hospital and 32,000-square-foot medical offices will be 18 inpatient beds and a trauma and emergency center, as well as medical providers including family medicine, lung and heart specialties, OB/GYN care and imaging services. While Penn Highlands’ presence in Centre County has been recognizable for several years by way of its laboratory and specialty outpatient services, the health care system with eight hospitals located to the west of Happy Valley has started construction on a new, freestanding hospital. With new state-of-the-art facilities and specialty health providers moving into the Happy Valley, access to advanced, highly skilled medical care will be just minutes away from residents’ homes. To say the region is experiencing a health care boom would be an understatement. In short, residents need more readily available health care options closer to home.įortunately for State College and the surrounding communities, some of Pennsylvania’s largest and most advanced medical providers are seeing this challenge as an opportunity. While the Happy Valley’s medical professionals have provided quality and compassionate health care to its residents for decades, the growing, as well as aging, population is in need of access to the latest, cutting-edge technologies and novel treatments that peers receive in larger cities. I wanted to feel confident that State College had those options for Mom, without needing to take her to Philadelphia or PIttsburgh for treatment.” She was, at the time, an 82-year-old cancer survivor in need of specific treatment options for the health challenges we encounter as we age. “I was concerned mostly for my mother, who was moving to State College with me. “For decades, I had access to some of the best medical facilities in the country, which are commonly located in major metropolitan areas,” Oakes said. With new state-of-the-art facilities and specialty health providers moving into the Happy Valley, access to advanced, highly skilled medical care will be just minutes away from residents’ homes.īut as she began her second career, now as the associate director in Penn State’s Center of Excellence in Industrial Biotechnology, she had only one slight hesitation when talking up her move to colleagues - the lack of high-quality medical subspecialties in the area. Her college years at Penn State and frequent return trips to Happy Valley gave her a taste of the year-round festivals, sporting events, music and art productions and plenty of restaurant options. When Wendy Oakes made the decision to return to State College from San Francisco, she knew what to expect.
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