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Join the Fun! Register for Penn Highlands Healthcare Family Fun Fest

Posted on by Jules Slater

(July 8, 2025 — DuBois, PA) Penn Highlands Healthcare invites members of the community to join the fun for the Dr. Gary DuGan Memorial Family Fun Fest which will be held Saturday, August 23, 2025 in the DuBois City Park. Bring your children of all ages, strollers and dogs!

This year, the event is bigger and better than ever! Penn Highlands Healthcare is teaming up with the DuBois Area YMCA to offer even more family friendly, healthy-living activities including:

  • 5K fun run/walk and one-mile walk (free for children ages 12 and under)
  • Pickleball tournament (all ages welcome)
  • Zumba class (all ages welcome)
  • Kickball tournament (ages 13 and older)
  • Informal sandbox kickball (ages 12 and under)
  • Games and Children’s activities
  • Food concessions
  • A large basket raffle and 50/50 drawing
  • Informational tables and more

There is something for all ages. Adults and young teens can enjoy competition on the kickball field. It’s the perfect way to spend a day with your family before summer ends. Don’t forget to bring your dog along too! This is a fantastic way to share some fun with your family and friends while supporting Penn Highlands Healthcare.

To kick off the fun prior to the event, a basket raffle is being held in the Penn Highlands DuBois Atrium. The raffle runs Mondays through Thursdays from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM through August 21, 2025. Tickets are six chances for $5. Winners will be drawn at the event on Saturday, August 23, 2025.

This Family Fun Fest commemorates Dr. Gary DuGan, former Medical Director of Penn Highlands Healthcare, whose vision led to the establishment of the residency program at Penn Highlands DuBois. He was also a passionate advocate for the DuBois YMCA and physical fitness. Proceeds will support the Graduate Medical Education (GME) program and the DuBois YMCA.

This is a great summer to get involved. Whether you run, walk, play kickball or sponsor, your support makes a difference. 

To register, visit www.phhealthcare.org/dugan. 

Direct questions to Sam Vida, Fund Development Coordinator and Event Manager at slvida@phhealthcare.org or 814-375-6251. 

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Penn Highlands Healthcare was officially formed in 2011 and is comprised of nine hospitals. Penn Highlands Brookville, Penn Highlands Clearfield, Penn Highlands Connellsville, Penn Highlands DuBois, Penn Highlands Elk, Penn Highlands Huntingdon, Penn Highlands Mon Valley, Penn Highlands Tyrone have served area communities for the past 100+ years. Penn Highlands State College is a new state-of-the-art hospital that opened in 2024. The health system’s business continuum also includes a home care agency, long-term care facilities and residential senior living communities, as well as durable medical equipment companies and retail pharmacies.

Penn Highlands Healthcare has evolved into an organization with approximately 6,200 employees in 150+ locations throughout 26 counties in Pennsylvania that include community medical buildings, outpatient facilities, surgery centers and physician practices. The facilities have a total of 1,396 inpatient, skilled nursing and personal care beds.  The system, which has 849 physicians and 427 advanced practice providers on staff, offers a wide range of care and treatments with specialty units for cancer, cardiovascular/thoracic, neurosurgery, pulmonology, neonatal and high-risk pregnancy patients. Being focused on what is important – patients and families – makes Penn Highlands Healthcare a great choice for healthcare in the region.

Keller Engineers Hires Transportation Construction Inspector

Posted on by Jules Slater

July 8, 2025, Hollidaysburg, PA – Keller Engineers, Inc., with locations in Hollidaysburg, State College, and Gettysburg, PA and Haddonfield, NJ is a full-service engineering firm providing client-focused civil and structural engineering, and surveying services.


Keller Engineers, Inc. is excited to welcome Doug Coffman to the Transportation Division as a Construction Inspector!


Doug has 30 years of experience which includes working within the heavy highway construction industry as a Foreman/Superintendent. He also completed the 12 TA-TCI Training Modules and is a certified NECEPT Concrete Field-Testing Technician.

Mount Nittany Health EMS Earns National Recognition for Excellence in Heart Attack and Stroke Care

Posted on by Jules Slater

State College, Pa – Mount Nittany Health Emergency Medical Services has been honored with the American Heart Association’s 2025 Mission: Lifeline® Gold Plus Target: Heart Attack Honor Roll award, recognizing its outstanding commitment to excellence in the care of heart attack and stroke patients.

The national accolade highlights the EMS team’s sustained ability to provide care that meets or exceeds best-practice guidelines for the treatment of heart attack and stroke patients in the field — a testament to their training, preparedness, and compassion.

“Patients experiencing a heart attack or stroke are in expert hands with our EMS team,” said Chris Hockenberry, NREMT-P, Manager, Emergency Medical Services, Mount Nittany Health. “Earning Gold Plus Target: Heart Attack Honor Roll underscores their compassion, professionalism, and deep commitment to delivering the highest quality care when our community needs it most.”

The Mission: Lifeline® program evaluates emergency response systems for their ability to deliver time-sensitive treatment to patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) — a serious type of heart attack — and suspected strokes. To achieve Gold Plus designation, EMS providers meet high-performance benchmarks, including:

  • Perform 12-lead electrocardiograms within 10 minutes of EMS contact
  • Transport ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)-capable hospitals within 90 minutes
  • Implement transfer protocols between hospitals
  • Provide key care for suspected stroke — from pre-arrival notification and glucose checks to stroke screenings en route — all in a consistent and efficient manner. 

This recognition reflects the dedication and readiness of Mount Nittany Health EMS professionals to deliver best-practice care, reinforcing the health system’s mission of “Healthier people, stronger community.”

Scaling Your Impact: From Doer to Delegator to Developer

Posted on by Jules Slater

Content Contributed by Chamber Today

  • Businesses plateau when leaders don’t evolve.
  • If you’re still the hub of every decision, you’re not scaling—you’re stalling.
  • True growth happens when leaders shift from doing tasks to developing people and systems.
  • This article walks through that essential transition: from Doer to Delegator to Developer.
  • The payoff: a business that grows beyond you.

638 Words ~ 3.5 min. read

  Most businesses don’t stall because of market conditions or strategy missteps. They stall because their leaders don’t evolve. If you’re still the person everyone depends on to make decisions, approve tasks, and solve problems, your business isn’t scaling. It’s bottlenecking. The reality is that no organization can outgrow the capacity of its leadership. To truly scale, you must transition from being the one who does the work, to the one who builds the system, to the one who grows the people.

Early in the life of a business, success often rides on your willingness and ability to do it all. In this Doer stage, you’re in the trenches: selling, servicing, troubleshooting. It’s an adrenaline-fueled, high-control, high-responsibility phase. And it works. Until it doesn’t. Over time, the weight becomes unsustainable. When you’re the linchpin for every operation, progress is constrained by your availability and energy. You may be working harder than ever and still feeling like you’re falling behind.

Eventually, to grow, you must let go. Enter the Delegator stage. This is where leaders begin to trust others to carry the load. Delegating isn’t about offloading. It’s about empowering others with clarity and ownership. Done well, it increases your organization’s capacity and sharpens your focus. Yet delegation alone only buys time. It doesn’t build scale. Many leaders plateau here, stuck in a loop of assigning tasks but still making all the key decisions.

The real leap happens when you become a Developer. This stage is less about controlling outcomes and more about shaping environments. Developer leaders create systems that reduce reliance on any one person, including themselves. More importantly, they grow people. Not just by assigning them tasks, but by coaching them to think critically, lead confidently, and take ownership. It’s no longer about asking, “How do I get this done?” but rather, “How do I enable others to do this better than I ever could?”

This evolution also changes how you define your role. Your value is no longer tied to personal output. Instead, it’s measured by the capability and autonomy of your team. Developer leaders build resilient organizations that can operate and thrive without their constant intervention.

Ask yourself: If you took two weeks off starting tomorrow, what would break? If the answer is “everything,” you’re still too central to the machine. That’s not a leadership problem. It’s a scalability problem.

The journey from Doer to Delegator to Developer isn’t just a framework. It’s a mindset shift. It requires vulnerability, patience, and the willingness to relinquish control in service of something larger. But it’s also the clearest path to freedom, fulfillment, and sustainable growth.

Leadership isn’t about how much you do. It’s about how well you enable others to do.

The Bottom Line
To scale your business, you must scale your leadership. Moving from task execution to system design to people development is the key transition every founder, executive, and team leader must make. When you invest in building leaders, not just doing the work, you stop being the bottleneck and start being the builder.

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State College, PA Hotel Named Best Days Inn Award Repeat Winner

Posted on by Jules Slater

State College, PA – The Days Inn by Wyndham Penn State is proud to announce its recognition as a recipient of the 2025 Days Inn President’s Award for the second consecutive year. This prestigious honor is presented annually to the brand’s top-performing hotels, celebrating excellence in service, operations, and guest satisfaction.

Edward Tubbs, Chief Executive Officer of Hospitality Asset Management Company, accepted the award on behalf of the hotel team during Wyndham Hotels & Resorts’ Annual Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.

“We are truly honored to receive this distinguished award,” said Sean Peters, General Manager of the Days Inn by Wyndham Penn State. “This achievement reflects the unwavering dedication of our team and our shared commitment to providing exceptional service to every guest who walks through our doors. We look forward to continuing this tradition of excellence in the year ahead.”

To qualify for the President’s Award, hotels must demonstrate outstanding guest satisfaction scores, ensure completion of Wyndham’s mandatory health and safety training for all team members, and maintain exemplary brand standards throughout the year.

Conveniently located just two miles from the Penn State University campus, the Days Inn by Wyndham Penn State features 97 guest rooms and offers a range of amenities including complimentary Wi-Fi, complimentary on-site parking, a fitness center, meeting facilities, and 24-hour coffee service. Guest rooms are equipped with flat-screen HDTVs with HBO, mini-refrigerators, hair dryers, irons, and offer pet friendly and accessible rooms for guests.