Holy Spirit Health System is seeking a $3.85 million state grant to renovate a former Weis Markets building into a data processing center.

Site work has begun in Manheim Township, Lancaster County, for an outpatient medical center slated to open early next year.

Pennsylvania is taking big steps over the next weeks through its leadership role in inter-connecting doctors, hospitals and health care organizations across the state.

Two forces are prompting a steady stream of mergers among health care providers in Central Pennsylvania, industry analysts said.

Health insurance giant Highmark Inc. is hopeful its proposed affiliation and eventual acquisition of West Penn Allegheny Health System will garner the approval of state regulators this summer.

The days of the independent community hospital may be numbered.

As the demand for home care steadily grows, the supply of qualified caregivers rises and falls.

As more health care institutions use electronic medical records, people want to see that such a modernization is working for better patient care, as has been promised.

Promotions, appointments and hires

York County-based safety-syringe maker Unilife Corp. has signed a seven-year commercial supply contract with a pharmaceutical company for its Unifill syringe, according to a news release.

A social services provider in York and Adams counties has reached an affiliation agreement with Eastern Pennsylvania-based Holcomb Behavioral Health Systems, according to a news release.

The $475 million commitment made by Highmark Inc. to bail out the West Penn Allegheny Health System is not going to be enough to turn it around, according to a new report from Moody's Investors Service.

York County has a relatively strong rate of adults with health care coverage but is toward the bottom in environmental quality and has increasing mental health issues with which to contend, according to a health assessment presentation this morning.