Penn
State Milton
S. Hershey
Medical Center
has made an agreement designed to improve oncology care for patients at a Berks
County-based hospital.

Pittsburgh-based Highmark Inc. plans to open Pennsylvania’s second health-insurance retail store
tomorrow in Cumberland
County, company officials
said.

New provisions that make it easier for laid off workers to
continue receiving health insurance benefits are shaking up human resources
departments across the midstate.

Harrisburg-based PinnacleHealth System has consolidated its
contracts for food and environmental services, which will mean a shakeup for
the two vendors' employees.

When President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery
& Reinvestment Act on Feb. 17, he not only helped to stimulate the lagging U.S.
economy.

Hospice of Lancaster
County serves nearly 450
people each day, employs 350 staff members and counts on more than 1,000
volunteers.

Ranked by number of licensed beds

Ranked by number of physicians

Chief executive officer of Heritage Medical Group

Tracking cancer

National health care expert Janet Marchibroda will be this
year’s keynote speaker at the Technology Council of Central Pennsylvania’s PA
Health Information Exchange Summit from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday at the
Hilton Harrisburg.

More than half of the respondents to a recent poll from the
Institute for Good Medicine at the Pennsylvania Medical Society said they find
dining out to be more enjoyable following the recently enacted restaurant
smoking ban.

Manheim Township-based Council on Drug & Alcohol Abuse
has changed its name to Compass Mark.

A national health care ratings group has ranked Lancaster General Hospital
and Harrisburg-based PinnacleHealth System as being among the top 5 percent of
hospitals nationwide for "clinical excellence."

Hospital-acquired infections in Pennsylvania dropped 7.8 percent from 2006
to 2007, according to a report released yesterday by the Pennsylvania Health
Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4).