A health care executive from Wisconsin has been named the new president of Gettysburg Hospital, WellSpan Health said this week.

Harrisburg-based PinnacleHealth has opened its PinnacleHealth Medical Oncology Associates office at its Medical Sciences Pavilion on the PinnacleHealth Community General Hospital campus in Lower Paxton Township.

York County-based Unilife Corp. has finished testing production lines for its pre-filled safety syringe and will begin making deliveries to drug manufacturers such as Sanofi-Aventis in the coming months, Unilife said.

The president of Newark, N.J.'s University Hospital, Robin D. Wittenstein, has resigned effective the end of July, to become chief operating officer of the Penn State Hershey Health System, in Derry Township.

Pittsburgh-based Highmark Inc., the health insurance company that's parent of Cumberland County-based Highmark Blue Shield, today said it will invest $475 million into a western Pennsylvania regional hospital system.

A 2010 study sponsored by the MetLife Mature Market Institute and the National Alliance for Caregiving amplified a 2008 workplace forecast by the Society for Human Resource Management. The forecast said that an aging general population and an expanding definition of family will lead to an increase in the amount of caregiving responsibilities for many full-time employees, especially baby boomers.

Select Medical Holdings Corp. completed a major refinancing of its debt this week, entering into $1.15 billion in new credit agreements.

Hospitals and health systems in South Central Pennsylvania contributed more than $9.1 billion last year to the region's economy, up from $8.1 billion in 2009, according to The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania.

Lancaster Regional Medical Center recently invested more than $1 million to upgrade its da Vinci robotic surgery system, a hospital spokeswoman said.

The West Shore's HealthSouth Regional Specialty Hospital has been sold to Plano, Texas-based LifeCare Holdings Inc. as part of a six-hospital deal.

Clinic operator Patient First will open its second midstate site next week.

Country Meadows Retirement Communities expects to break ground today on a $3.5 million renovation of its West Manchester Township location to merge three buildings and add amenities to appeal to baby boomers, the company said.

The Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital has been included on U.S. News and World Report's “Best Children's Hospitals,” the Dauphin County hospital said today.

Another year passes, and we see another budget proposal that ignores the realities facing Pennsylvania’s seniors and those who provide their care.
Each year, the Department of Welfare estimates what it should be paying senior care providers for Medicaid recipients based on the reimbursement regulations that supposedly govern both the department and providers.