A Virginia-based health care executive is set to take the role of executive vice president and COO at Penn State Health this summer.

It’s the news Pennsylvania’s OraSure Technologies Inc. has been waiting for. It announced today that it has received three Emergency Use Authorizations from the Federal Drug Administration for its COVID-19 rapid antigen tests.

Patients in need of hip and knee replacements can now receive same-day outpatient care from North Pointe Surgery Center - Lebanon (NPSC-Lebanon).

Penn State Health is set to replace 70% of the imaging equipment throughout its system in the next five years through a partnership with Erlangen, Germany-based Siemens Healthineers.

Pennsylvania hospitals saw a 33% loss in operating income as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new fiscal report by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4).

WellSpan Health opened its $33 million Heart and Vascular Center in York this month, bringing 120 of the York-based health system’s team members from offices across the county to one specialty care facility.

Penn State Health will hire approximately 300 people as it nears the Oct. 1 opening of its Hampden Medical Center in Hampden Township, Cumberland County.

“Physically, psychologically, it was too much,” Grab said, adding that a lot of nurses left the field in the past year. “Unfortunately, there are not enough nurses in the pipeline to fill those spots.”

UPMC Pinnacle is dropping “Pinnacle” from the names of three of its central Pennsylvania hospitals as part of a systemwide rebranding.

Pittsburgh-based Highmark Health announced it has earned the WELL Health-Safety Rating from the International WELL Building Institute for six properties the organization directly manages, including two in central Pennsylvania.

Midstate residents were mostly well informed on what was needed to slow the spread of COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic but were overwhelmed with worries about mixed messages and distrust of some sources, according to researchers at the Penn State College of Medicine.

51.9% of Pennsylvania’s eligible population have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as of May 7, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 43% are fully vaccinated.

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Incoming legislation in the House and Senate looks to give back to Pennsylvania’s “health care heroes” with $650 million in grant funding.

Pennsylvania-based Rite Aid Pharmacy is partnering with the state to ease access to COVID-19 vaccinations for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, Gov. Wolf announced.