Recruitment efforts shift into high gear
With Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center preparing to open its doors to patients this fall, the health system is ramping up recruitment efforts for its newest acute care hospital. The hospital’s leadership team is actively recruiting dynamic team members looking for a culture where they will be appreciated and valued. Opportunities are available in all departments, including nursing, the operating room, pharmacy, respiratory services and other clinical areas.
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Happy about Hampden
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Jill Arnold
Director of Inpatient Women and Children’s ServicesWhat makes you most excited about your new role at Hampden Medical Center?
I’ve spent 20 years talking about how amazing it is to be a Penn State Health nurse and how great the care is here. Now my local community, my friends and family, can experience that care in their backyard – and if highly specialized care is needed, Hershey is just up the road.
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Judy Himes, MSN, RN, NE-BC
Interim Chief Nursing OfficerJudy Himes is interim chief nursing officer at Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center.
She has served as chief nursing office and director of nursing for Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center since 2005. Himes has built a reputation for collaboration among her nursing peers and with physicians and other members of the care team. She is known for her mentorship, coaching and professional development of staff nurses and nurse managers.
Himes has more than two decades of senior nursing leadership experience at hospitals and health systems in the central Pennsylvania region, including the Lebanon VA Medical Center, where she served as associate chief of the nursing service for Acute Care/Specialty Services.
Prior to that role, Himes was vice president for Patient Care Services and chief nursing officer at Pinnacle Health System and served as director of nursing operations at PinnacleHealth.
She obtained her Master of Science in nursing from the University of Pittsburgh and her Bachelor of Science in nursing from the Penn State. Himes is an active member of the Penn State College of Nursing Advisory and Development Board.
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Dr. James Leaming
Director of Emergency MedicineWhat makes you happy about working in Hampden?
I’ve gotten to know the community – not just the EMS workers and people I’ve treated, but community members through outreach activities – and they are wonderful people. This is a beautiful community – there’s a reason why people continue to flock to the West Shore to live.
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More to know about Hampden Medical Center
Hampden Medical Center will bring acute inpatient medical services to communities in Cumberland, Perry and York counties. The $300 million facility will feature 110-private-inpatient beds and an attached outpatient medical office building.
Location: 2200 Good Hope Road, Enola, Pa., 17025
Intersection of Wertzville and Good Hope roads, Hampden Township
Groundbreaking: Mar. 29, 2019
Opened to patients: Oct. 1, 2021
Inpatient Services: Adult acute care services at the West Shore hospital, including Emergency Medicine and Labor and Delivery*, will be provided by community-based and Penn State Health physicians held to Penn State Health quality standards.
*Please note that Labor and Delivery services will begin in late 2021, following the transfer of maternity and neonatal special care and well-baby nursery from Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical Center to the Women and Babies Center at Hampden Medical Center.
Outpatient Services: Women’s Health, Lab, Imaging Services, Surgery and Noninvasive Diagnostic Cardiology
Community-Conscious Building Design: Facility will be built into the landscape to take full advantage of the natural surroundings and minimize impact to the area’s noise, light and sightline standards. This new, acute care facility will play a fundamental role in helping achieve Penn State Health’s long-term goal of ensuring that everyone in the communities we serve is within 10 minutes of our primary care providers, 20 minutes of our specialty care services and 30 minutes of a Penn State Health acute care hospital.
Hampden Medical Center will help ensure residents of these communities have access, quality and choice of care as close to home as possible.
Now Offering $20K Bonus for RNs
- Increased rates
- Increased PTO
- Increased shift differentials
