State Leaders Recognize Robert Packer Hospital, Towanda Campus

November 10, 2023
Joe Sawyer, President, Robert Packer Hospital, Rep. Tina Pickett, Rep. Clint Owlett, and Kyle McDuffee, Director, Operations
Joe Sawyer, President, Robert Packer Hospital, Rep. Tina Pickett, Rep. Clint Owlett, and Kyle McDuffee, Director, Operations

Rep. Tina Pickett and Rep. Clint Owlett visited Robert Packer Hospital’s Towanda Campus to celebrate Towanda’s statewide recognition for its outstanding performance in patient safety. 

The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) recently recognized RPH’s Towanda Campus through its 2023 Excellence in Patient Safety Recognition program. The program honors Pennsylvania’s top-performing hospitals that have demonstrated low rates of health care-associated infections. Robert Packer Hospital, Towanda Campus was one of 29 hospitals being recognized out of the more than 270 hospitals in the state. 

Reps. Pickett and Owlett presented leaders with a special citation marking this achievement.

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