Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health recently received $750,000 in state grants to combat substance-use-disorder and mental-health challenges in women. 

Chicago-based privately held cannabis company PharmaCann Inc. opened its newest Verilife medical marijuana dispensary in Lancaster on Tuesday. 

Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center has appointed its newest senior vice president and chief operating officer, to begin at the Hershey-based hospital next month.

Penn State Health plans to launch an at-home health care service that includes hospital and skilled nursing care through a partnership with Highmark Health and Nashville-based high-acuity home care company Contessa. 

More than 70 Geisinger Health System employees filed a class-action suit against Danville-based Geisinger Medical Center and its affiliated hospitals and clinics, claiming its COVID-19 testing requirements for employees exempt from getting the vaccine force them to choose between their religion and their jobs. 

WellSpan and Johns Hopkins’ Kimmel Cancer Center have had a clinical and research collaboration since 2017 that saw Johns Hopkins provide specialists in pediatric, urology and plastic surgeries as well as second opinions on severe cancer cases, to WellSpan’s Southcentral Pennsylvania hospitals and cancer centers. 

Central Penn College’s new short-term Surgical Technician Diploma Program that will prepare students for the sought-after healthcare paraprofessional role is set to begin in spring 2022. 

Students come to the Byrnes Health Education Center in York to learn subjects such as oral health, drug education and nutrition by health educators with help from a series of exhibits. 

The nursing shortage in Pennsylvania -- and across the country -- isn’t new, it’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic, according to the head of the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association in Harrisburg.  

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration has amended its Emergency Use Authorization of OraSure’s InteliSwab COVID-19 rapid test. The Bethlehem diagnostic test manufacturer said the EUA now only requires one test for users who are presenting symptoms of COVID-19. 

Surgery Center of Lancaster, a 17,000-square-foot surgical center of 26 surgeons, was recently purchased through a partnership of the center’s owners, Penn State Health and ValueHealth. 

Area insurers have rolled out their Medicare Advantage (MA) plans for 2022, boasting a wide range of offerings for a growing base of Medicare beneficiaries seeking new options in the space. 

For Midstate businesses finding success as diverse hirers, company-wide diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) goals have become less like objectives and more like a part of their DNA. 

AAA Central Penn members now have access to shop, quote and enroll in a variety of Medicare health plans through Harrisburg-based URL Insurance Group. 

Senior housing, health care and community services trade association, LeadingAge PA awarded $98,000 in workforce grants to nine of its members on Thursday.