Enhancing Access to Care: Penn Medicine
In our first full year of membership in Penn Medicine, LG Health has expanded access to care and provided patients with advanced diagnostic and treatment options previously unavailable in Lancaster County.
“With Penn Medicine, we can provide leading-edge oncology care locally and tap into highly advanced resources, research and technology by bringing Penn specialists into our community,” says Stacey Youcis, Senior Vice President of Service Lines and Population Health at LG Health. “And, while we can manage the majority of a patient’s care here, we have the option of the patient traveling to Penn to undergo a surgery or a single treatment.”
As a member of Penn Medicine, we added advanced surgical services and seamless coordination with world-class specialists that were previously unavailable in our region.
In the past, putting patients on the path to wellness might have required multiple visits to multiple offices.
The new ability to share lab results between offices via Epic, our electronic medical record provider, means more transplant patients can stay local for testing and care management. In 2016, Penn Medicine physicians began conducting liver, kidney and pancreas transplant evaluations at Lancaster General Hospital clinics.
“This really enhanced the care of our transplant patients in Lancaster,” says Carolyn Gorman, MBA, CMPE, Vice President of UPHS System Integration. “Our transplant surgeons are able to stay in their Penn chart and order using Lancaster’s lab. It then gets routed through Lancaster back into the Penn chart, creating seamless patient care.”
Record-sharing between institutions will soon grow to encompass diagnostic imagery and full medical records, too.
When patients do have to travel to Philadelphia, a new concierge service takes the hassle out of logistics like scheduling and transportation. In 2016, more than 500 patients took advantage of the program with the help of nurse navigators.
Our partnership also provides Lancaster-area residents with access to Penn Medicine’s extensive research system, with clinical trials that test emerging solutions and offer patients much-needed hope.
Colleen and her daughter share their amazing story about how physicians at Lancaster General Health and Penn Medicine collaborated at every stage to complete a successful liver transplant.
Ted was diagnosed with Stage 3 lung cancer. Since it was inoperable, clinicians at Lancaster General Health and Penn Medicine worked together to coordinate his successful treatment using proton therapy.
Our partnership also provides Lancaster-area residents with access to Penn Medicine’s extensive research system, with clinical trials that test emerging solutions and offer patients much-needed hope.
Penn Medicine By the Numbers
LG Health is a member of the University of Pennsylvania Health System (Penn Medicine), which is consistently ranked among the nation’s best overall and in multiple specialties by U.S. News & World Report.
Penn Medicine includes Perelman School of Medicine, a world-renowned teaching and research institution ranked among the nation’s top 5 medical schools by U.S. News & World Report.
As of 12/2/16