Following a message from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warning Americans to prepare for the spread of coronavirus in the U.S., the state Department of Health outlined the its steps to prepare for it.

Pennsylvania’s available services for aging residents are detailed in the state Department of Aging’s new 2020 Benefits and Rights Book.

A new report released this month from POLITICO, a Virginia-based political opinion company, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that Americans identify cutting health care costs as the top political issue during this election year.

Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana industry doubled last year—adding more treatable conditions, doctors who can could prescribe the medication, and distributers, growers and processors to get that medicine to patients.

Penn State Health expects to begin construction on its 129-bed, five-story acute care hospital in Lancaster County in the coming weeks.

Following its most recent round of applications for the Pennsylvania Medical Marijuana Research Program, the state Department of Health has approved four more organizations to begin clinical trials alongside academic partners.

LeadingAge PA, a Mechanicsburg-based senior-living trade association, has signed an agreement with Lancaster-based Kairos Health Systems to bring the organization on as a subsidiary.

Ten Pennsylvania health care providers for older adults and people with intellectual disabilities have been asked by the state Auditor General to undergo an audit of their records.

WellSpan’s incoming addition to WellSpan York Hospital, an eight-story tower created to expand the hospital’s inpatient services, is not the only major project the system is working on. In fact, the midstate is currently brimming with new projects in the works from all of the area’s major players.

WellSpan’s newly announced expansion to its York hospital will include more than 500 new employees and is expected to alleviate a capacity issue at the facility.

Global Healthcare Company GlaxoSmithKline PLC will close its manufacturing facility in Carlisle to move the site’s production to Guayama, Puerto Rico, a GSK spokesperson confirmed to the Central Penn Business Journal.

Pennsylvanians permitted to buy medical marijuana may be more likely to stop taking the medicine because of its cost and the inability to find a consistent supply of the same strain, according to a recent survey by the Pennsylvania Department of Health.

With ongoing production and supply chain shutdowns there due to the coronavirus, now officially named COVID19 by the World Health Organization, any company that has manufacturing facilities in China, or purchases vital components from that part of the world, could be impacted by the disease’s spread.

WellSpan York Hospital will expand its intensive care unit with a $255 million surgical and critical care tower, planned to open on the hospital’s campus in 2025.

Family First Health, a York-based federally qualified health center, is opening its newest facility next week at the WellSpan Dixon Foundation Health Center in Lebanon.