The Rite Aid Foundation is launching a Racial Equity Awareness and Action Initiative to push for progress and sustainable change by donating $1 million to two nonprofit groups - EmbraceRace and United Way.

A bill approved by the House and Senate that would allow health care professionals to remove their last name on photo identification could help protect Pennsylvania’s medical professionals from workplace violence, according to the bill’s prime sponsor.

Penn State Health and Geisinger’s Boards of Directors reached an agreement that will give Penn State ownership of Holy Spirit Health System pending regulatory approval.

UPMC Pinnacle opened its second outpatient endocrinology practice in York County this month. The new UPMC Pinnacle Endocrinology Associates office, at 510 Greenbriar Road, Manchester Township, is the system’s third.

A Lancaster-based pharmacy accused of price gouging customers on N95 face masks has agreed to pay $1,765 in civil penalties and $741 in restitution in a settlement with Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro.

While working with only a fraction of its young clients in-person due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Schreiber Center for Pediatrics has seen a drastic increase in telemedicine visits and donations.

Attorney General Josh Shapiro reached a settlement with a New Jersey-based pharmacy supplier that allegedly price gouged on hand sanitizer sold to Pennsylvania pharmacies.

Pennsylvania’s long term care organizations face the challenge of communicating to new residents and their families that facilities are safe to visit after closing their doors to visitors and prospective residents for months.

The suit cited a May 27 order from the state Department of Health prohibiting gatherings of more than 250 individuals, which remained in effect as Cumberland County transitioned to the “green phase” of the commonwealth’s plan to reopen in-person business operations.

Pennsylvania is one of three states of the country that have had a downward trajectory of COVID-19 cases for more than 42 days, Gov. Tom Wolf announced during a press conference on Wednesday.

“In my opinion there is at least a 20 percent increase, compared to the same period last year, in both our mental health and wellness services,” said Eduardo Espiridion, chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Reading Hospital Tower Health

Highmark Health announced today that it plans to affiliate with HealthNow New York Inc. – a Buffalo-based insurer operating in 21 New York counties.

Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health has partnered with a Chester County-based developer, Hankin Group, to build a mixed-use residential community center and freestanding medical office building in the 500 block of North Queen Street in Lancaster.

West Reading-based Tower Health said it will be eliminating 1,000 jobs because of the financial impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on its health system.

Pennsylvania’s businesses, workers and residents would lose a bevy of protections if the state’s disaster declaration were ended by a resolution passed by the state General Assembly, according to Gov. Tom Wolf.