Ephrata-based Retreat Behavioral Health will open a mental health and substance abuse treatment center in Connecticut next week.

Pennsylvania Insurance Department officials say the state’s insurance companies do not provide adequate access to health care as mandated by state and federal guidelines, prompting the need for state agencies to institute stronger parity regulations.

Schreiber Center for Pediatrics is awaiting zoning approval to expand its Lancaster County outpatient facility.

Eight more hospitals across the state will be joining a state initiative created to help rural hospitals receive the funding they need to stay open.

The American Heart Association recognized PSECU (Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union) with a Silver Level status for its success in creating a healthy workplace culture.

From now until Jan. 21, state officials are accepting comments for Gov. Tom Wolf’s federally mandated four-year workforce development plan, which seeks to coordinate the efforts of the state's educational institutions, economic development programs and employers of the region’s major industries to create a pathway to optimal employment.

UPMC Pinnacle’s gastroenterology practice now offers its services in Hanover.

The state has allocated an additional $5 million in federal funding for a loan repayment program for health care practitioners who treat substance-use and opioid-use disorders. The increased funding, announced Dec. 20, is available to health care practitioners who work in areas with high opioid-use and a shortage of health-care options.

Penn State Health will acquire a pulmonary practice that will allow it to expand its lung disease and sleep disorder care to more of its facilities across the midstate.

Five WellSpan Health practices will adopt software that lets patients give secure information to their doctor through their phone.

A federal appeals court ruled that an Affordable Care Act requirement that mandated Americans to purchase health insurance was unconstitutional, but did not rule on whether to overturn the act, known as Obamacare.

Eight health care startups will show their products to a team of insurance and health care experts at the Smart Health Innovation Lab in Lancaster next year.

Retired Pennsylvania coal miners will see their retirement and health care benefits preserved thanks to a bipartisan, end-of-year federal government spending deal announced this week.

Hospitals accounted for one out of 10 jobs in Pennsylvania and contributed some $60.5 billion to the state’s economy, according to a report released by the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania.

For the past year, expectant mothers seeing WellSpan Health obstetricians have had the option to reduce their doctor visits through a service offered by a Washington D.C.-based tech company.