CONGRESSMAN SHUSTER VISITS KEYSTONE HEALTH CENTER APPLAUDING THE CENTER'S APPROACH TO QUALITY HEALTHCARE Joanne Cochran gives Congressman Shuster a tour of Keystone Rural Health Center's family practice facility.   CHAMBERSBURG, PA -- Congressman Bill Shuster paid a visit to Keystone Rural Health Center, a public, non-profit organization providing quality healthcare to individuals and families regardless of ability to pay, on Tuesday August 27 to applaud and commend the physicians, staff and board members on their approach and commitment to quality healthcare. Touring the family practice facility, Congressman Shuster, who represents Pennsylvania's Ninth Congressional District in the House of Representatives and serves on the Rural Health Care Coalition, saw firsthand the extraordinary work that is being done by the Center's team of compassionate physicians and staff. "Successfully implementing an innovative approach to providing accessible medical care to all residents of Franklin County including the underserved, uninsured and vulnerable populations, the Center serves as a model for other rural communities across the state," Congressman Shuster said. "I plan to communicate their efforts to other counties within the Ninth District." Speaking to Keystone's co-founder and president, Joanne Cochran, Shuster said, "Joanne, what you do here is important to the community and to the folks you serve who have a difficult time paying for these services. Thank you for the wonderful job you and your staff do. I'm committed to making sure healthcare stays strong in central Pennsylvania and I pledge to provide a strong voice in Washington to support its goals." Cochran pointed out that currently Keystone Rural Health Center generates the majority of its revenues through services paid by Medicaid, Medicare, health maintenance organizations and private insurance companies. She urged Shuster to help Keystone, and the government, better serve the healthcare needs of the poor population. Congressman Shuster speaks with board members following his speech.   Keystone currently operates five primary care sites: Keystone Health Center family practice, Keystone Dental Center, Keystone Women's Care, Keystone Health Center- Path Valley satellite family practice, and the State Migrant Farmworker Administration Office. Keystone also operates one, year-round migrant and seasonal farm worker site in Berks County and one seasonal farm worker site in Adams County. Services are also provided through outreach workers and contracted providers in counties across the Commonwealth. With 101 full-time and 17 part-time physicians and staff, Keystone Rural Health Center provides services including medical care, dental care, gynecological and obstetrical care, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) treatment and counseling, case management, alcohol/substance abuse treatment, housing assistance, contracted pharmacy, laboratory screening, outreach, language translation, transportation, health education, health care translation, state migrant program administration, Franklin County migrant farm worker program, Adams County migrant farm worker program, Berks County migrant farm worker program, and services to its 39,600 clients (27,000 in Franklin County and a registered 12,000 migrant and seasonal farm workers throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.) For more information regarding Keystone Rural Health Center, please visit the website at www.keystonehealth.com. For more information regarding this news release, please contact Karen Gross at (717) 975-2148, or visit the newsroom at www.hersheyphilbin.com. ###

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