Pennsylvania hospitals saw a 33% loss in operating income as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new fiscal report by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4).

WellSpan Health opened its $33 million Heart and Vascular Center in York this month, bringing 120 of the York-based health system’s team members from offices across the county to one specialty care facility.

Penn State Health will hire approximately 300 people as it nears the Oct. 1 opening of its Hampden Medical Center in Hampden Township, Cumberland County.

“Physically, psychologically, it was too much,” Grab said, adding that a lot of nurses left the field in the past year. “Unfortunately, there are not enough nurses in the pipeline to fill those spots.”

UPMC Pinnacle is dropping “Pinnacle” from the names of three of its central Pennsylvania hospitals as part of a systemwide rebranding.

Pittsburgh-based Highmark Health announced it has earned the WELL Health-Safety Rating from the International WELL Building Institute for six properties the organization directly manages, including two in central Pennsylvania.

Midstate residents were mostly well informed on what was needed to slow the spread of COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic but were overwhelmed with worries about mixed messages and distrust of some sources, according to researchers at the Penn State College of Medicine.

51.9% of Pennsylvania’s eligible population have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as of May 7, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 43% are fully vaccinated.

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Incoming legislation in the House and Senate looks to give back to Pennsylvania’s “health care heroes” with $650 million in grant funding.

Pennsylvania-based Rite Aid Pharmacy is partnering with the state to ease access to COVID-19 vaccinations for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, Gov. Wolf announced.

Harrisburg-based Kepro, a private company contracted by over 30 states to monitor complaints, discharge appeals and more for Medicare programs, announced the acquisition of a Harleysville, Montgomery County-based independent medical review services company.

Pennsylvania has resumed use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine, following a thorough federal review which reaffirmed the vaccine’s safety and effectiveness against the virus, according to the Harrisburg-based Hospital and Health System Association of Pennsylvania.

In the past 12 months, Pennsylvania's medical cannabis sales brought in $909.4M, according to an April report from Headset, a Seattle-based cannabis research and data analysis firm.

A proposed Cumberland County health care education training facility could create a pipeline of skilled workers to take advantage of the county’s rapidly expanding health care industry.