Gov. Tom Wolf has nominated his deputy chief of staff, Alison Beam, to serve as secretary of the Department of Health.

Harrisburg Area Community College’s (HACC) upcoming Community Health Worker Program will prepare students for careers such as outreach workers, patient navigators and peer health educators.

Pennsylvania Health Secretary, Dr. Rachel Levine, who will be leaving office to take a position in President-elect Joe Biden’s administration, said she is proud of the work she has done during her six years of state service.

Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine has been nominated by President-elect Joe Biden to be his assistant secretary of health, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday.

OVID-19 arrived in the U.S. in the beginning of 2020 and within a couple months the pandemic was virtually closing down the entire country. The COVID-19 pandemic caused disruptions, pain, suffering and negative consequences for a broad spectrum of our world population and economies.  

Wyomissing, Berks County-based ophthalmology and eye care practice, Eye Consultants of Pennsylvania, named its newest administrator this week.

Patients with end-stage liver disease can now receive a liver transplant evaluation at UPMC Memorial with the opening of the York-based hospital’s new UPMC Liver Transplant Evaluation Clinic.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that it will not hear an appeal from the wife of a convicted former Rite Aid executive who sought to sue the pharmacy chain for stopping payments through her husband’s retirement package.

A CEO for a New Orleans-based hospital system is set to join Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health as its next CEO when current president and CEO, Jan Bergen, retires this March.

Like the rest of the state and the country, the situation remains dire for the retail, restaurant, hospitality, accommodation, tourism and recreation sectors. Industries that are hiring include healthcare, construction, warehousing, distribution and manufacturing, all of which were having problems finding workers before the pandemic.

A new optometry franchise focused exclusively on medical eye care opened its first brick-and-mortar location in York County this week.

LifeAire Systems is being recognized by the state for adapting its technology to help in the fight against COVID-19.

Months into the pandemic, a Mountville, Lancaster County company found that it needed a more efficient way to manage its workforce due to the virus -- a problem that another Mountville company was already looking to tackle with new web-based software.

The better question might be: When will many of our nursing homes even receive a date for vaccinations to begin? Some are hearing that it’s not until February.

Vaccine distributors across the state will need to direct 10% of each shipment to non-hospital affiliated health care personnel, according to a new order signed by Pennsylvania Department of Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine on Wednesday.