Pennsylvania lawmakers unanimously adopted a resolution directing a state panel to study the shortage of mental health care providers in the state, according to a press release from the resolution’s author, state Rep. Jeanne McNeill (D-Lehigh).

Four nursing homes in the midstate were candidates in April for a federal program that targets underperforming facilities, according to a list revealed jointly by Pennsylvania’s U.S. senators, Democrat Bob Casey and Republican Pat Toomey.

Food insecurity and mental distress among Pennsylvania seniors rose over the last year even though most of its older residents regularly see health care providers and many take advantage of federal nutrition assistance, according to an annual report by the United Health Foundation.

The Fortune 500 is out and a number of companies in Central Pennsylvania and the Greater Lehigh Valley have made the cut.

UPMC and Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro are heading back to court in their battle over a consent decree requiring the Pittsburgh-based health network to take patients insured by Highmark Health.

Lower Paxton Township-based medical management firm KEPRO intends to lay off about 100 of its Pennsylvania employees by next month, part of a string of layoffs nationwide.

A proposed bill with the power to alter Pennsylvania’s workers’ compensation law is designed to benefit first responders who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Dentsply Sirona is moving its executive offices to Charlotte, North Carolina, home of its new U.S. commercial hub. The headquarters relocation is not expected to impact its other offices and manufacturing operations in York.

WellSpan Health recently purchased three urgent-care centers in York County from a Maryland company and plans to reopen two of them this summer under its own banner.

Pennsylvania’s top attorney is defending his efforts to make drug-maker Purdue Pharma pay for the way it marketed the painkiller OxyContin to doctors in Pennsylvania.

Summit Health Vice President of Finance Jeff Carty died of natural causes on Friday while driving on Interstate 81 in Guilford Township, Franklin County. He was 55.

Asked Monday night what they would like to see in the former UPMC Pinnacle Lancaster hospital, city residents appeared to favor housing and health care.

Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center has finished a new area for its emergency department and plans to open it this week.

The former owner of a Harrisburg consulting firm pleaded guilty this week to defrauding a fund that provides employee benefits for the union representing state university faculty.

A major update to a national rating system for nursing homes has had a trickledown effect on the ratings of Pennsylvania facilities, one that could affect their ability to attract residents.