{"id":93076,"date":"2026-01-22T00:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/93076\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T00:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:26:15","slug":"penn-state-health-st-joseph-expands-surgical-capabilities-for-children-in-berks-county-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/93076\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn State Health St. Joseph expands surgical capabilities for children in Berks County | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERN TWP., Pa. &#8211; Penn State Health&#8217;s Children&#8217;s Hospital is offering more surgery options in Berks County.<\/p>\n<p>Pediatric surgeons and other health providers will offer specialty services at Penn State Health Saint Joseph Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are pleased to welcome our colleagues from Penn State Health Golisano Children\u2019s Hospital and to work together to advance pediatric care in Berks County,\u201d said Dr. Kimberly Wolf, vice president and chief medical officer of St. Joseph Medical Center. \u201cThis collaboration ensures the highest quality of pediatric surgical care is available to families in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to increase access to surgical care for children and teenagers in Berks and surrounding counties.<\/p>\n<p>Surgeons are offering pre-surgical appointments and performing general and gastrointestinal surgery at the Bern Township hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERN TWP., Pa. &#8211; Penn State Health&#8217;s Children&#8217;s Hospital is offering more surgery options in Berks County. Pediatric&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,45867,45866,45868,28,128,130,129,12242],"class_list":["post-93076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-gastrointestinal-surgery","tag-penn-state-health-golisano-childrens-hospital","tag-penn-state-health-saint-joseph-medical-center","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-surgery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}