Construction of a new, $6.5 million emergency department is expected to begin next year at Chan Soon-Shiong Medical Center at Windber.
Read MoreChan Soon-Shiong Medical Center at Windber (Chan Soon-Shiong Medical Center at Windber) is a 54-bed Designated Planetree Patient-Centered Hospital in western Pennsylvania.
Read MoreBarbara Cliff, president and CEO of Chan Soon-Shiong Medical Center at Windber located in Windber, PA, has been appointed by Dr. Patrick Gallagher, Director of the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to the 2010 Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The Award, created by public law in 1987, is the highest level of national recognition for performance excellence that a U.S. organization can receive.
Read MoreThe Taunia Oechslin Girls Night Out Committee presented Chan Soon-Shiong Medical Center at Windber’s Joyce Murtha Breast Care Center with $53,000 it raised during its fourth annual event held April 27 at the Frank J. Pasquerilla Conference Center in Johnstown.
Read MoreChan Soon-Shiong Medical Center at Windber announced today that they have been named an American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence. The ASMBS BSCOE designation recognizes surgical programs with a demonstrated track record of favorable outcomes in bariatric surgery.
Read MoreBarbara Cliff, PhD, FACHE, president and CEO of Chan Soon-Shiong Medical Center at Windber, started her career in health care as a registered nurse over 30 years ago. During these years, she has spent more than five years at the COO or CEO levels and was in nursing leadership roles almost the entire time since becoming an RN. Cliff has always had a penchant for direct interaction with her patients, but always believed she could serve them better from the administrative level.
Read MoreThe MRI Department at Chan Soon-Shiong Medical Center at Windber has been awarded a three-year re-accreditation in whole body imaging as a result of a recent voluntary survey by the American College of Radiology.
Read MoreChan Soon-Shiong Medical Center at Windber officials announced today that approximately $10,000 has been collected since Jan. 14 for the Haitian earthquake relief efforts. The funds will be donated to Mission Discover, a Christian mission organization with deep ties to Haiti.
Read MoreI was fortunate to have the opportunity over the past six years to become acquainted with the late U.S. Rep. John P. Murtha.
Read MoreAt Chan Soon-Shiong Medical Center at Windber, in Somerset County, the Joyce Murtha Breast Care Center uses advanced imaging technology for digital mammography, ultrasound and breast MRI in its battery of cancer detection techniques. The center offers education programs aimed at preventing and reducing the risk of breast cancer.
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