Adult patients of emergency departments and clinics at Penn State Health hospitals will be able to have one family or support person with them beginning Monday.

Late last month, York-based WellSpan Health announced the newest leader of its board of directors along with six new board members.

Reading-based Tower Health said it was recently the recipient of counterfeit 3M 1860 N95 masks.

A joint task force that includes members of the General Assembly and the Wolf Administration was empaneled and is expected to help the state streamline how it communicates vaccine information and issues.

Enola-based specialty health care system Post Acute Medical became an early adopter for a mobile filtration unit that it says will prove to have been the right investment even after the pandemic is over.

National medical marijuana dispensary chain Curaleaf Holdings is set to open its first Pennsylvania Curaleaf dispensary in Harrisburg on Wednesday.

Harrisburg-based venture capital investment firm The Life Sciences Greenhouse of Central Pennsylvania (LSGPA) invested $1.5 million last year into three Pennsylvania health care companies.

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.