• MONTCO Careers: Abington Hospital – Jefferson Health

    MONTCO Careers: Abington Hospital – Jefferson Health

    Abington Hospital-Jefferson Health, formerly Abington Memorial Hospital, has 665 beds and more than 5,500 employees, including more than 1,100 physicians, and is one of the largest employers in Montgomery County. CDI Specialist This position reviews inpatient medical records, teaches physicians how to properly fill out quality and reimbursement documentation, and works with the CIS coding…

  • Bestselling Author Urges Penn State Abington Largest Graduating Class to ‘Take a Stand’

    Bestselling Author Urges Penn State Abington Largest Graduating Class to ‘Take a Stand’

    With Penn State Abington’s spring 2017 commencement moved indoors due to heavy rain, the campus community joyfully weathered a downpour of emotions as the 400 graduates — the largest class in its history — moved on to new challenges. New York Times bestselling author and attorney Lawrence Otis Graham urged the Class of 2017 not…

  • Montgomery County Leadership: Dr. Val Arkoosh, Montgomery County Commissioner

    Montgomery County Leadership: Dr. Val Arkoosh, Montgomery County Commissioner

    Dr. Val Arkoosh, Chair of the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners, speaks with MONTCO Today about growing up in Omaha, summering in Laramie, Wyoming, and how a brief medical scare as a child sparked her interest in becoming a doctor. A “C” in chemistry after her first semester at Northwestern awakened her to the academic…

  • Survey Shows that Female Doctors with Children Face Extra Challenges and Discrimination

    Survey Shows that Female Doctors with Children Face Extra Challenges and Discrimination

    A survey has found that female doctors who have children such as Abington pediatrician Amanda Jones, face additional challenges and discrimination, writes Alan Yu for NewsWorks. The survey, published in the latest issue of Journal of the American Medical Association: Internal Medicine, found that 2,000 out of over 5,700 respondents said they suffered discrimination because…