#GeisingerGrateful

Your gifts at work: 

• Expand emergency care capacity in Central Pennsylvania. We completed a $10 million expansion and upgrade the emergency department at Geisinger Shamokin Hospital in January, expanding it to 25 beds to accommodate our region’s growing need for high-quality, advanced emergency care.

• Increase access to breast cancer care in Wyoming Valley. We opened the new Comprehensive Breast Center at the Frank M. and Dorothea Henry Cancer Center in February, enabling patients to access imaging, diagnostics and advanced cancer treatment in one convenient location.

• Graduate 44 new biomedical scientists to care for future generations. Forty-four students received a master of biomedical sciences degree from Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine in January, including several first-generation-to-college graduates. Many will go on to become clinical scientists, microbiologists, biophysicists, epidemiologists and other specialists who will advance medical treatments for years to come.

• Identify early detection of thyroid cancer. Researchers from Geisinger’s groundbreaking MyCode Community Health Initiative uncovered a genetic variant associated with high risk for thyroid cancer, enabling those with the variant to take proactive measures to prevent the potentially deadly disease. 

• Achieve recognition as one of the best hospitals in the nation. Newsweek included Geisinger Medical Center and Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center on its list of the World’s Best Hospitals 2023, underscoring our ability to provide advanced, high-quality care right here at home.