CHS announces executive restructuring
Tennessee-based Community Health Systems Inc., which is on track to own all four for-profit hospitals in Central Pennsylvania, has announced a restructuring of its operating divisions and executive level promotions.
Two area hospitals beat national readmissions average
Figures on Medicare's new hospital readmissions standards are out, and Central Pennsylvania did pretty well.
HMA stockholders overwhelmingly approve merger
Health Management Associates Inc. stockholders this morning overwhelmingly voted in favor of a merger agreement under which Community Health Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire HMA.
Midstate stock report: A 5-year analysis of Central Pa.’s biggest public companies
While stock chasing is often an inexact science, we tried to boil it down as exactly as it could be.
Newsmakers: Government
Business featured this week: Pennsylvania eHealth Partnership Authority
The Arlington Group to build new Harrisburg headquarters
Later this month, The Arlington Group will break ground on a new headquarters practically next door to its current leased one on Sir Thomas Court in Lower Paxton Township.
In brief: Good Samaritan cancer center plans gather steam
The Good Samaritan Hospital has been planning a cancer center project, and the recent awarding of a $3 million state Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program grant is a significant milestone.
Midstate stock report: 2013 growth, best return on investment and more
Take a closer look at the five-year analysis of the biggest public companies in Central Pennsylvania with more charts and data.
Midstate stock report: CPBJ fantasy stock portfolio
In the spirit of experimentation and a little fun, staff reporters Jason Scott and Michael Sadowski have created a fantasy fund of seven local stocks from the Business Journal's June public companies list.
Latest ACS details uninsured and disabled populations
From 2008 to 2012, 9.7 percent of Pennsylvania's population was uninsured and 13.2 percent had a disability, according the U.S. Census Bureau's most recent American Community Survey.
Analysis: Obamacare provisions make highest-risk enrollees most profitable
Obamacare may turn traditional health insurance risk management upside down and make the elderly, women, babies and people with medical conditions the most profitable enrollees, according to new analysis by Milliman, one of the world's largest actuarial firms.