HERSHEY, Pa. — Residents in southern Cumberland and northern York County will soon have greater access to Penn State Health services and providers when a new primary care location opens on Route 114/Market Street near the Route 15 interchange, just south of Mechanicsburg.
The new, 10,000-square-foot Penn State Health Medical Group practice will initially include 12 exam rooms and additional clinical support space for a team of four primary care providers and about a dozen support staff. The building also would include shell space for eight additional exam rooms to allow for future expansion.
Penn State Health anticipates beginning construction on the new facility in April, with a likely opening to patients in fall 2020.
“This new outpatient practice will be designed around the needs of the community and serve as part of our broader efforts — in partnership with Highmark — to ensure people have access to Penn State Health providers close to home, where it’s convenient for them and their families,” said Dr. Peter Dillon, executive vice president and chief clinical officer, Penn State Health.
The new practice helps fulfill a commitment made in 2017 by Penn State Health and Highmark to build a broader community care network to ensure patients and members in central Pennsylvania are in close proximity to needed primary care, specialty care and appropriate acute care hospital settings. Penn State Health already provides primary and specialty care to West Shore area residents at a number of other locations.
Penn State Health Medical Group – Mechanicsburg (Route 114 near Interstate 81) offers family medicine, internal medicine and neurology services. Penn State Health Medical Group – Camp Hill (Market Street near 32nd Street/Camp Hill bypass) offers family medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics and gynecology, as well as care in more than 20 specialties and on-site lab and imaging services.
Penn State Health Medical Group – Andrews Patel Hematology/Oncology (Camp Hill and Harrisburg locations) provides West and East Shore residents high-quality, compassionate oncology and hematology services and clinical trial opportunities in a community setting.
Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center, a 110-bed general acute care inpatient hospital, is under construction in Hampden Township (Good Hope Road, off Route 944 and I-81) and on schedule to open in summer 2021.