PRINTER'S NO. 2053
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No.
399
Session of
2020
INTRODUCED BY DiSANTO, BROWNE, MARTIN, PHILLIPS-HILL, ARGALL,
REGAN, J. WARD, ARNOLD, DINNIMAN AND BARTOLOTTA,
OCTOBER 2, 2020
REFERRED TO RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS, OCTOBER 2, 2020
A RESOLUTION
Celebrating Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center's
50th anniversary on October 14, 2020; and recognizing the
health care workers at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey
Medical Center who deliver safe and compassionate health care
services that improve the health and quality of life for
residents of the central Pennsylvania region.
WHEREAS, In 1963, Samuel L. Hinkle, former president and
chairman of the Hershey Chocolate Corporation, contacted Dr.
Eric E. Walker, former president of Penn State University, to
discuss the establishment of a medical school and teaching
hospital in Hershey, Pennsylvania; and
WHEREAS, The M.S. Hershey Foundation gave a $50 million gift
to Penn State University for the project, which combined with
the $21.3 million received from the United States Public Health
Service allowed Penn State University to build Penn State Health
Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of
Medicine; and
WHEREAS, In 1966, construction began for Penn State Health
Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of
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Medicine; and
WHEREAS, Penn State College of Medicine opened its doors to
the first class of students in 1967, awarded its first degree in
1969 and graduated its first full class during 1971; and
WHEREAS, The Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical
Center accepted its first patient on October 14, 1970; and
WHEREAS, During the last 50 years, Penn State Health Milton
S. Hershey Medical Center has been a pioneer in health care
delivery, clinical innovation and medical research; and
WHEREAS, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
has been on the leading-edge of health care innovation,
including the accomplishment of all of the following health care
milestones:
(1) The development of the world's first artificial
heart.
(2) The establishment of the nation's first Department
of Family Medicine and Department of Humanities.
(3) The discovery of vaccine testing, which has led to
the development of the cervical cancer vaccine.
(4) Leading the use of clinical simulation.
(5) Recently, becoming 1 of approximately 100 hospitals
internationally participating in an ongoing study of the
investigational antiviral drug remdesivir for treatment of
COVID-19;
and
WHEREAS, Penn State College of Medicine received more than
$102 million in research funding for fiscal year 2020, with $70
million from the National Institutes of Health, the highest
amount of funding provided by the National Institutes of Health
in a year to date; and
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WHEREAS, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center,
with 564 beds, is recognized as one of the nation's premier
academic health care centers, providing high-level and patient-
focused medical care; and
WHEREAS, The Hershey campus includes all of the following:
(1) Penn State Children's Hospital, the region's only
children's hospital.
(2) Institutes focused on cancer, heart and vascular
disease and the neurosciences.
(3) Penn State College of Medicine;
and
WHEREAS, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
has the only Level 1 Trauma Center for both adult and pediatric
patients in this Commonwealth, which has served more than 1.2
million people; and
WHEREAS, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
and Penn State College of Medicine employ more than 11,000
people, including 1,100 physicians and health care providers and
2,288 nurses; and
WHEREAS, Through the efforts of thousands of staff, faculty
and students, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
and Penn State College of Medicine have built upon the legacy of
Milton S. Hershey and expanded substantially the reach of Penn
State University by improving the health and the quality of life
of this Commonwealth and our nation; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the Senate celebrate Penn State Health Milton
S. Hershey Medical Center's 50th anniversary on October 14,
2020; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the Senate recognize the health care workers
at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, who
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deliver safe and compassionate health care services that improve
the health and quality of life for residents of the central
Pennsylvania region.
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