January 2008
The Janet Weis Children’s Hospital has been named #1 among Children’s Hospital’s nationally for patient satisfaction for the six straight month by Press Ganey Enterprises. The survey looks at patient satisfaction among 56 children’s hospitals across the country including Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, A.I. DuPont Institute, Johns Hopkins University Medical Center as well as many others. The recent survey places Geisinger at the #1 position when averaged for the 2007 calendar year.

A press briefing at the 2007 National Conference and Exhibition (NCE) of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) was made identifying Dr. Scott Myers, Neurodevelopmental Pediatrician at the Janet Weis Children's Hospital/Geisinger Medical Center, as a co-author two new guidelines to be used nationally for screening autism: "Identification and Evaluation of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders" and "Management of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders."

September 2007
On Sept. 8, 2007, five pediatric residents and two pediatric attending physicians departed for Ukraine for a two week trip to explore the country’s medical system and provide care to children living in orphanages and those living “on the street.” The team visited orphanages in Plyzkiv, Sitkivsy, Ladyshen, Vinnystya and Kiev and provided examination and medical care to the children living in them.  The team toured Cerebral Palsy centers in Bila Tserkva and Vinnystsya and children’s hospitals in Bila Tserkva and examinations and medical care to these children. 
This was an excellent experience for the residents and the attending physicians alike. This trip was arranged in cooperation with Woody Wolfe of Heart to Hand Ministries of Danville.  Woody has traveled to the Ukraine on six previous occasions and had identified areas of need in advance of the team’s visit.

May 2007
Dr. Dan Whitmore, 2002 Medicine/Pediatrics residency program director, was recently awarded the Rural Clinician of the Year award:
http://www.acponline.org/hospitalist/dec07/mentor.htm

March 2007
Geisinger Medical Center begins construction of a new eight-story, $100 million “Center for Advanced Medicine” in early March, 2007. When completed in the spring of 2010, this new facility will put under one roof truly world-class cardiovascular and allied clinical care for residents of our local communities.

The dedication of the Geisinger Center for Health Research was held on March 22, affirming the system’s commitment to finding solutions to complex healthcare dilemmas facing the American healthcare system. The Center for Health Research focuses on outcomes research, rural health policy, environmental health, electronic health record safety, and issues related to aging. The three-story, 63,000-square foot C-shaped facility is located on the campus of Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, between the Sigfried and Janet Weis Research Center and Geisinger Medical Center.

Geisinger Medical Center has been named to the Solucient 100 Top Hospitals®: National Benchmarks for Success list, which annually examines changing performance levels in US hospitals across five critical performance areas: outcomes of care, patient safety, efficiency, financial performance and growing community service. This is the second consecutive year that Geisinger Medical Center has been named to the 100 Top Hospitals list and the sixth time that a Geisinger Health System hospital has been recognized by Solucient as among the country’s top hospitals.Geisinger Medical Center is the only major teaching hospital in Pennsylvania named to Solucient’s list.